Malta, sentence 320
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 is an Apostolic See; the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 28) tells of how St. Paul was shipwrecked on the island of "Melite", which many Biblical scholars identify with Malta, an episode dated around AD 60.
Who acts: Malta Apostolic See, many Biblical scholars · What happens: be, tell, shipwreck, identify, date · To what, where: Malta Apostolic See, Paul, island, Melite, episode, AD · Speech: someone speaks here
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 Apostolic See, many Biblical scholars), 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 | 5 See | compound |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 See | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 See | det |
| 4 | Apostolic | Apostolic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 See | compound |
| 5 | See | See | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 tells | nsubj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 Acts | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Acts | det |
| 8 | Acts | Act | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 See | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Apostles | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Apostles | det |
| 11 | Apostles | Apostle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Acts | nmod |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 Acts | punct |
| 13 | Acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Acts | appos |
| 14 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 Acts | flat |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 Acts | punct |
| 16 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 shipwrecked | mark |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 shipwrecked | advmod |
| 19 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Paul | nmod:desc |
| 20 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 shipwrecked | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 shipwrecked | aux:pass |
| 22 | shipwrecked | shipwreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 tells | ccomp |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 island | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 island | det |
| 25 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shipwrecked | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Melite | case |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Melite | punct |
| 28 | Melite | Melite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 island | nmod |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Melite | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 identify | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 identify | obj |
| 32 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 scholars | amod |
| 33 | Biblical | biblical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 scholars | amod |
| 34 | scholars | scholar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 identify | nsubj |
| 35 | identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 Melite | acl:relcl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 Malta | case |
| 37 | Malta | Malta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 identify | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 episode | punct |
| 39 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 episode | det |
| 40 | episode | episode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Malta | appos |
| 41 | dated | date | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 episode | acl |
| 42 | around | around | ADP | _ | 43 AD | case |
| 43 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 dated | obl |
| 44 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 43 AD | flat |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a Malta Apostolic See | the Acts of the Apostles nmod | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | a Malta Apostolic See | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | shipwreck | past · passive | Paul St. | the island of Melite | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | identify | present | many Biblical scholars | Melite | with Malta | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 5 | date | participle | a episode not said here | AD | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=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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