Malta, sentence 414
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.
This sometimes consists of background folk guitar music, while a few people, generally men, take it in turns to argue a point in a sing-song voice.
Who acts: This, few people · What happens: consist, take, argue · To what, where: music, turns, point, song voice
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 (This, few people), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 consists | nsubj |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 consists | advmod |
| 3 | consists | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 music | case |
| 5 | background | background | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 music | compound |
| 6 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 guitar | compound |
| 7 | guitar | guitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 music | compound |
| 8 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consists | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 take | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 men | punct |
| 15 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 16 men | advmod |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 people | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 people | punct |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 consists | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 turns | case |
| 21 | turns | turn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 take | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 argue | mark |
| 23 | argue | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 take | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 point | det |
| 25 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 argue | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 voice | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 voice | det |
| 28 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 song | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 sing | punct |
| 30 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 voice | compound |
| 31 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 point | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consists | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | present | This | of background guitar music; sometimes property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | a few people and men | music | turns | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in turn=Location | |||
| 3 | argue speech: disagree | to-infinitive | a few people and men not said here | a point | a song voice | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent point=Topic |
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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