Malta, sentence 104
From Wikipedia, «Malta», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Maltese leaders gave the main island to Alexander Ball, asking that the island become a British Dominion.
Who acts: Maltese leaders, island · What happens: give, ask, become · To what, where: main island, Alexander Ball · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Malta». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maltese leaders, island), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maltese | maltese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 leaders | amod |
| 2 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 5 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 island | amod |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Ball | case |
| 8 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ball | compound |
| 9 | Ball | Ball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 island | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asking | punct |
| 11 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 gave | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 become | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 island | det |
| 14 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 become | nsubj |
| 15 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asking | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Dominion | det |
| 17 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Dominion | amod |
| 18 | Dominion | Dominion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 become | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Maltese leaders | the main island | Alexander Ball | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent island=Theme to ball=Recipient | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Maltese leaders not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | become | present | the island | a British Dominion xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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