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title: Both names derive from the earlier Burmese Mranma or Mramma, an ethn… — Myanmar · tree and pragmatics
description: Both names derive from the earlier Burmese Mranma or Mramma, an ethnonym for the majority Burman ethnic group, of uncertain etymology. Who acts: names. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Myanmar» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Myanmar, sentence 29

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From Wikipedia, [«Myanmar»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar), 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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Both names derive from the earlier Burmese Mranma or Mramma, an ethnonym for the majority Burman ethnic group, of uncertain etymology.

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**Who acts:** names · **What happens:** derive · **To what, where:** Burmese Mranma

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Myanmar». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (names), 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:Myanmar:29
# text = Both names derive from the earlier Burmese Mranma or Mramma, an ethnonym for the majority Burman ethnic group, of uncertain etymology.
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	derive	derive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
7	Burmese	Burmese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Mranma	Mranma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Mramma	Mramma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ethnonym	ethnonym	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	Burman	Burman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	etymology	etymology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **derive** | present | both names |  |  | the Burmese Mranma or Mramma |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from mranma=Material |

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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, «Myanmar», 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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