Malta, sentence 159
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.
According to the United Nations, about 95 percent of the area of Malta is urban and the number grows every year.
Who acts: 95 percent, number · What happens: accord, be, grow
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 (95 percent, number), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Nations | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Nations | det |
| 4 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 5 Nations | compound |
| 5 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 urban | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 percent | punct |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 95 | advmod |
| 8 | 95 | 95 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 percent | nummod |
| 9 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 urban | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 area | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 area | det |
| 12 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 percent | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Malta | case |
| 14 | Malta | Malta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 area | nmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 urban | cop |
| 16 | urban | urban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 grows | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 number | det |
| 19 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grows | nsubj |
| 20 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 urban | conj |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 year | det |
| 22 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grows | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 urban | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | 95 percent of the area of Malta | accord the United Nations; urban property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | the number | year | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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