Malta, sentence 379
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 also a popular destination to study the English language, attracting over 83,000 students in 2019.
Who acts: Malta, English language · What happens: be, study, attract · To what, where: popular destination, English language, 83,000 students, 2019
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, English language), 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 | 6 destination | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 destination | cop |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 destination | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 destination | det |
| 5 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 destination | amod |
| 6 | destination | destination | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 study | mark |
| 8 | study | study | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 destination | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 language | det |
| 10 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 language | amod |
| 11 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 study | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 attracting | punct |
| 13 | attracting | attract | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 language | acl |
| 14 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 83,000 | advmod |
| 15 | 83,000 | 83,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 students | nummod |
| 16 | students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 attracting | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 2019 | case |
| 18 | 2019 | 2019 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 attracting | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 destination | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Malta | a popular destination | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | study | to-infinitive | the English language | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic | |||||
| 3 | attract | gerund | the English language not said here | 83,000 students | 2019 | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent student=Patient |
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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