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title: The Institute of Shar'ah and Law was founded in January 1999. — Maldives · tree and pragmatics
description: The Institute of Shar'ah and Law was founded in January 1999. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Maldives» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Maldives, sentence 445

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From Wikipedia, [«Maldives»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives), 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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The Institute of Shar'ah and Law was founded in January 1999.

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**What happens:** found · **To what, where:** Institute

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Maldives». 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:Maldives:445
# text = The Institute of Shar'ah and Law was founded in January 1999.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Institute	Institute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Shar'ah	Shar'ah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Law	Law	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	1999	1999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past · passive |  | the Institute of Shar'ah and Law |  |  | january |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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, «Maldives», 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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