Malta, sentence 183
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 had the second highest voter turnout in the world (and the highest for nations without mandatory voting), based on election turnout in national lower house elections from 1960 to 1995.
Who acts: Malta · What happens: have, base · To what, where: second highest voter turnout, world, mandatory voting, election turnout
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), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 turnout | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 turnout | amod |
| 5 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 turnout | amod |
| 6 | voter | voter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turnout | compound |
| 7 | turnout | turnout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turnout | nmod |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 highest | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 highest | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 highest | det |
| 14 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 turnout | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 nations | case |
| 16 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 highest | obl |
| 17 | without | without | ADP | _ | 19 voting | case |
| 18 | mandatory | mandatory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 voting | compound |
| 19 | voting | voting | NOUN | _ | 14 highest | obl |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 voting | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 based | punct |
| 22 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 voting | acl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 turnout | case |
| 24 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turnout | compound |
| 25 | turnout | turnout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 based | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 elections | case |
| 27 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 elections | amod |
| 28 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 elections | amod |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 elections | compound |
| 30 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 turnout | nmod |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 1960 | case |
| 32 | 1960 | 1960 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 elections | nmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 1995 | case |
| 34 | 1995 | 1995 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 1960 | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Malta | the second highest voter turnout | the world | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turnout=Patient | |||
| 2 | base | participle | mandatory voting not said here | election turnout in national lower house elections from 1960 to 1995 | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on turnout=Source |
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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