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title: In a custom known as "open house" Malaysians participate in the cele… — Malaysia · tree and pragmatics
description: In a custom known as "open house" Malaysians participate in the celebrations of others, often visiting the houses of those who identify with the festival. Who acts: Malaysians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malaysia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malaysia, sentence 480

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From Wikipedia, [«Malaysia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In a custom known as "open house" Malaysians participate in the celebrations of others, often visiting the houses of those who identify with the festival.

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**Who acts:** Malaysians · **What happens:** know, participate, visit, identify, celebrate · **To what, where:** custom, houses, others

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Malaysia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Malaysians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Malaysia:480
# text = In a custom known as "open house" Malaysians participate in the celebrations of others, often visiting the houses of those who identify with the festival.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	Malaysians	Malaysian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	participate	participate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	celebrations	celebration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	visiting	visit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	nmod	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	identify	identify	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | a custom *not said here* |  |  |  | as open house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as house=Attribute |
| 2 | **participate** | present | Malaysians |  |  |  |  | in the celebrations of others; in a custom | vn cooperate-73.1-2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in custom=Theme |
| 3 | **visit** | gerund | Malaysians *not said here* | the houses of those |  |  |  | often *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **identify** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with the festival; who *nsubj* | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer with festival=Stimulus |
| 5 | **celebrate** |  |  | others |  |  |  |  | nom celebration «event transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Malaysia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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