Malta, sentence 120
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.
In 1971, the Malta Labour Party led by Dom Mintoff won the general elections, resulting in Malta declaring itself a republic on 13 December 1974 within the Commonwealth.
Who acts: Malta Labour Party · What happens: lead, win, result, declare · To what, where: Malta Labour Party, general elections, 1971, Malta, party, 13
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 (Malta Labour Party), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1971 | case |
| 2 | 1971 | 1971 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 won | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1971 | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Party | det |
| 5 | Malta | Malta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Party | compound |
| 6 | Labour | Labour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Party | compound |
| 7 | Party | Party | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 won | nsubj |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Party | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Dom | case |
| 10 | Dom | Dom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl:agent |
| 11 | Mintoff | Mintoff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Dom | flat |
| 12 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 elections | det |
| 14 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 elections | amod |
| 15 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 won | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 resulting | punct |
| 17 | resulting | result | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 won | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Malta | case |
| 19 | Malta | Malta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 resulting | obl |
| 20 | declaring | declare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 resulting | advcl |
| 21 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 declaring | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 republic | det |
| 23 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 declaring | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 13 | case |
| 25 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 declaring | obl |
| 26 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 13 | nmod:unmarked |
| 27 | 1974 | 1974 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 13 | flat |
| 28 | within | within | ADP | _ | 30 Commonwealth | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Commonwealth | det |
| 30 | Commonwealth | Commonwealth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 declaring | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | participle | the Malta Labour Party not said here | Dom obl:agent | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | win | past | the Malta Labour Party | the general elections | 1971 | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | result | gerund | the Malta Labour Party not said here | Malta | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in malta=Location | ||||
| 4 | declare speech: other | gerund | the Malta Labour Party not said here | party | 13 December | within the Commonwealth; a republic obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent itself=Theme republic=Attribute |
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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