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title: Malaysia has competed at the Commonwealth Games since 1950 as Malaya… — Malaysia · tree and pragmatics
description: Malaysia has competed at the Commonwealth Games since 1950 as Malaya, and since 1966 as Malaysia, and the games were hosted in Kuala Lumpur in 1998. Who acts: Malaysia, Kuala. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malaysia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malaysia, sentence 496

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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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Malaysia has competed at the Commonwealth Games since 1950 as Malaya, and since 1966 as Malaysia, and the games were hosted in Kuala Lumpur in 1998.

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**Who acts:** Malaysia, Kuala · **What happens:** compete, host · **To what, where:** Commonwealth Games, games, 1998

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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 (Malaysia, Kuala), 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:496
# text = Malaysia has competed at the Commonwealth Games since 1950 as Malaya, and since 1966 as Malaysia, and the games were hosted in Kuala Lumpur in 1998.
1	Malaysia	Malaysia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	competed	compete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Games	Game	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	since	since	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1950	1950	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Malaya	Malaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	since	since	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1966	1966	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Malaysia	Malaysia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	hosted	host	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Kuala	Kuala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl:agent	_	_
26	Lumpur	Lumpur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	1998	1998	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compete** | present · perfect | Malaysia |  |  | the Commonwealth Games | since 1950; since 1966 | as Malaya; as Malaysia | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **host** | past · passive | Kuala | the games |  | 1998 |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |

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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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