Malta, sentence 296
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.
Thus, there was a natural population increase of 835 (compared to +888 for 2004, of which over a hundred were foreign residents).
Who acts: natural population increase · What happens: be, compare · To what, where: natural population increase, hundred foreign residents
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 (natural population increase), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 was | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 increase | det |
| 6 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 increase | amod |
| 7 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 increase | compound |
| 8 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 835 | case |
| 10 | 835 | 835 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 increase | nmod |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 compared | punct |
| 12 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 increase | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 888 | case |
| 14 | + | + | SYM | _ | 15 888 | cc |
| 15 | 888 | 888 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 compared | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 2004 | case |
| 17 | 2004 | 2004 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 888 | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 residents | punct |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 residents | nsubj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 hundred | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hundred | det |
| 23 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 residents | nummod |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 residents | cop |
| 25 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 residents | amod |
| 26 | residents | resident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 compared | obl |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 compared | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a natural population increase of 835 | there | thus property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | compare | participle | a natural population increase of 835 not said here | to 888 for 2004 | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | hundred foreign residents | which nsubj | tree rules |
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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