Malta, sentence 389
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.
Carnival (Maltese: il-karnival ta' Malta) has had an important place on the cultural calendar.
Who acts: karnival ta · What happens: have · To what, where: important place, cultural calendar
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 (karnival ta), 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 | Carnival | Carnival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Maltese | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 Maltese | punct |
| 3 | Maltese | maltese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 Maltese | punct |
| 5 | il | IL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 karnival | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 il | punct |
| 7 | karnival | karnival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ta | compound |
| 8 | ta | ta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 10 | Malta | Malta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 Malta | punct |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 had | aux |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 Maltese | parataxis |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 15 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 place | amod |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 calendar | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 calendar | det |
| 19 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 calendar | amod |
| 20 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 place | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Maltese | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | karnival ta | a important place | the cultural calendar | Malta nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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