Malta, sentence 346
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.
Most of the foreign community in Malta consists of active or retired British nationals and their dependents, centred on Sliema and surrounding suburbs.
Who acts: Most · What happens: consist, centre, surround · To what, where: active British nationals, Sliema, suburbs
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 (Most), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 consists | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 community | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 community | det |
| 4 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 community | amod |
| 5 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Most | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Malta | case |
| 7 | Malta | Malta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 community | nmod |
| 8 | consists | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 nationals | case |
| 10 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nationals | amod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 retired | cc |
| 12 | retired | retired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 active | conj |
| 13 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nationals | amod |
| 14 | nationals | national | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 consists | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dependents | cc |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 dependents | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dependents | dependent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 nationals | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 centred | punct |
| 19 | centred | centre | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 nationals | acl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 Sliema | case |
| 21 | Sliema | Sliema | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 centred | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 surrounding | cc |
| 23 | surrounding | surround | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 centred | conj |
| 24 | suburbs | suburb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 surrounding | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 consists | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | present | Most of the foreign community in Malta | of active British nationals and nationals's dependents | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | centre | participle | active British nationals and nationals's dependents not said here | Sliema | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | surround | gerund | suburbs | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme suburb=Co-Theme |
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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