Malta, sentence 170
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.
Malta contains 4.6 km2 of naturally regenerating forest, characterised by mature trees with a height of 2 to 5 m. The overall area occupied by trees is estimated to be 32 km2, which constitutes approximately 1.44% of the total land area of the archipelago.
Who acts: Malta, 2 m. · What happens: contain, regenerate, characteris, occupy, estimate, be · To what, where: 4.6 km2, forest, overall area, 32
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, 2 m.), 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 | Malta | Malta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 contains | nsubj |
| 2 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 4.6 | 4.6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 km2 | compound |
| 4 | km2 | km2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 contains | obl |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 regenerating | mark |
| 6 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 7 regenerating | advmod |
| 7 | regenerating | regenerate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 km2 | advcl |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 regenerating | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 characterised | punct |
| 10 | characterised | characteris | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 forest | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 trees | case |
| 12 | mature | mature | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 trees | amod |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 characterised | obl:agent |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 height | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 height | det |
| 16 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trees | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 m. | case |
| 18 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 m. | nummod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 5 | case |
| 20 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 2 | nmod |
| 21 | m. | m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 height | nmod |
| 22 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 area | det |
| 23 | overall | overall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 area | amod |
| 24 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 estimated | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 area | acl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 trees | case |
| 27 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 occupied | obl |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 estimated | aux:pass |
| 29 | estimated | estimate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 m. | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 32 | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 32 | cop |
| 32 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 estimated | obl |
| 33 | km2 | km2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 32 | flat |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 constitutes | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 constitutes | nsubj |
| 36 | constitutes | constitute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 km2 | conj |
| 37 | approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 38 1.44 | advmod |
| 38 | 1.44 | 1.44 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 % | nummod |
| 39 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | 36 constitutes | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 area | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 area | det |
| 42 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 area | amod |
| 43 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 area | compound |
| 44 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 % | nmod |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 archipelago | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 archipelago | det |
| 47 | archipelago | archipelago | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 area | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | Malta | 4.6 km2 | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | regenerate | gerund | Malta not said here | forest | naturally property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | characteris | participle | forest not said here | mature trees with a height of 2 m. obl:agent | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | occupy | participle | the overall area not said here | by trees | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | estimate | present · passive | 2 m. not said here | the overall area | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | ||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | 32 | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | constitute | present | which nsubj | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Pivot |
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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