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title: After the riots, the controversial New Economic Policy was launched… — Malaysia · tree and pragmatics
description: After the riots, the controversial New Economic Policy was launched by Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak, trying to increase the share of the economy held by the bumiputera. Who acts: Minister Tun Abdul. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malaysia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malaysia, sentence 89

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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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After the riots, the controversial New Economic Policy was launched by Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak, trying to increase the share of the economy held by the bumiputera.

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**Who acts:** Minister Tun Abdul · **What happens:** launch, try, increase, hold, share · **To what, where:** controversial Economic Policy, share, economy

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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 (Minister Tun Abdul), 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:89
# text = After the riots, the controversial New Economic Policy was launched by Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak, trying to increase the share of the economy held by the bumiputera.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	riots	riot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	controversial	controversial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Economic	Economic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Policy	Policy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	launched	launch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	14	compound	_	_
14	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	Tun	Tun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Abdul	Abdul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	Razak	Razak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	economy	economy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bumiputera	bumiputera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **launch** | past · passive | Minister Tun Abdul | the controversial Economic Policy |  |  | after the riots |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | gerund | Minister Tun Abdul *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **increase** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Minister Tun Abdul *not said here* | the share of the economy |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer share=Patient |
| 4 | **hold** | participle |  | the economy *not said here* |  |  |  | by the bumiputera | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by bumiputera=Location |
| 5 | **share** |  |  | the economy |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession 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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