Malta, sentence 385
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These were most comprehensively compiled by the scholar (and pioneer in Maltese archaeology) Manwel Magri in his core criticism "Ħrejjef Missirijietna" ("Fables from our Forefathers").
Who acts: scholar · What happens: compile · To what, where: These, core criticism
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 (scholar), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 compiled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 compiled | aux:pass |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 comprehensively | advmod |
| 4 | comprehensively | comprehensively | ADV | _ | 5 compiled | advmod |
| 5 | compiled | compile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 scholar | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 scholar | det |
| 8 | scholar | scholar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 compiled | obl |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 pioneer | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pioneer | cc |
| 11 | pioneer | pioneer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scholar | appos |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 archaeology | case |
| 13 | Maltese | maltese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 archaeology | amod |
| 14 | archaeology | archaeology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pioneer | nmod |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 pioneer | punct |
| 16 | Manwel | Manwel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 scholar | appos |
| 17 | Magri | Magri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Manwel | flat |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 criticism | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 criticism | nmod:poss |
| 20 | core | core | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 criticism | compound |
| 21 | criticism | criticism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 compiled | obl |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Ħrejjef | punct |
| 23 | Ħrejjef | Ħrejjef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 criticism | appos |
| 24 | Missirijietna | Missirijietna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Ħrejjef | flat |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Ħrejjef | punct |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 Fables | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Fables | punct |
| 28 | Fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Ħrejjef | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Forefathers | case |
| 30 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 Forefathers | nmod:poss |
| 31 | Forefathers | forefather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 Fables | nmod |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Ħrejjef | punct |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 Ħrejjef | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 compiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compile | past · passive | the scholar | These | Manwel's core criticism | comprehensively property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
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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