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title: Following three years of occupation, Malaya was briefly unified as t… — Malaysia · tree and pragmatics
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# Malaysia, sentence 8

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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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Following three years of occupation, Malaya was briefly unified as the Malayan Union in 1946 until 1948 when it was restructured as the Federation of Malaya.

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**What happens:** follow, unify, restructure · **To what, where:** 1946, Union

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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: 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:8
# text = Following three years of occupation, Malaya was briefly unified as the Malayan Union in 1946 until 1948 when it was restructured as the Federation of Malaya.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	Malaya	Malaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	briefly	briefly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	unified	unify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Malayan	Malayan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1946	1946	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
17	until	until	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1948	1948	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	restructured	restructure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Federation	Federation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Malaya	Malaya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **unify** | past · passive |  |  |  | 1946 until 1948 |  | follow Malaya; as the Malayan Union; briefly *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **restructure** | past · passive |  | Union |  |  |  | as the Federation of Malaya | tree rules |

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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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