Malta, sentence 256
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.
The public tender was won by Arriva Malta, which introduced a fleet of brand new buses, built by King Long especially for service by Arriva Malta and including a smaller fleet of articulated buses brought in from Arriva London.
Who acts: Arriva · What happens: win, introduce, build, include, articulate, bring in · To what, where: public tender, fleet, smaller fleet, articulated buses, Arriva London
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 (Arriva), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tender | det |
| 2 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tender | amod |
| 3 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 won | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 won | aux:pass |
| 5 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Arriva | case |
| 7 | Arriva | Arriva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 won | obl:agent |
| 8 | Malta | Malta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Arriva | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 introduced | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 introduced | nsubj |
| 11 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Arriva | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fleet | det |
| 13 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 introduced | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 buses | case |
| 15 | brand | brand | ADV | _ | 16 new | advmod |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 buses | amod |
| 17 | buses | bus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fleet | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 built | punct |
| 19 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 won | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 Long | case |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Long | nmod:desc |
| 22 | Long | Long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 built | obl |
| 23 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 19 built | advmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 service | case |
| 25 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 built | obl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 Arriva | case |
| 27 | Arriva | Arriva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 service | nmod |
| 28 | Malta | Malta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Arriva | flat |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Arriva | flat |
| 30 | including | include | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 and | acl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 fleet | det |
| 32 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 fleet | amod |
| 33 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 including | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 buses | case |
| 35 | articulated | articulate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 buses | amod |
| 36 | buses | bus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 fleet | nmod |
| 37 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 buses | acl |
| 38 | in | in | ADV | _ | 37 brought | advmod |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 London | case |
| 40 | Arriva | Arriva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 London | compound |
| 41 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 brought | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past · passive | Arriva | the public tender | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | introduce | past | Arriva | a fleet of new buses | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleet=Patient | ||||
| 3 | build | participle | Arriva not said here | by Long King; for service by Arriva; especially property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for service=Asset | ||||
| 4 | include | gerund | a smaller fleet of articulated buses | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleet=Theme | |||||
| 5 | articulate speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | bring in | participle | articulated buses not said here | Arriva London | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | service | Arriva | nom service «act transitive»: by=agent |
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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