Malta, sentence 431
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.
Food has been important historically in the development of a national identity, in particular the traditional fenkata (i.e., the eating of stewed or fried rabbit).
Who acts: Food · What happens: be, stew, fry, develop · To what, where: development, national identity
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 (Food), 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 | Food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 important | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 important | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 important | cop |
| 4 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | historically | historically | ADV | _ | 4 important | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 development | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 development | det |
| 8 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 important | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 identity | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 identity | det |
| 11 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 identity | amod |
| 12 | identity | identity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 development | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fenkata | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 fenkata | case |
| 15 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fenkata | amod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fenkata | det |
| 17 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fenkata | amod |
| 18 | fenkata | fenkata | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 important | conj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 eating | punct |
| 20 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | 23 eating | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eating | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 eating | det |
| 23 | eating | eating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fenkata | appos |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 25 stewed | mark |
| 25 | stewed | stew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 rabbit | amod |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 fried | cc |
| 27 | fried | fry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 stewed | conj |
| 28 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 eating | conj |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 eating | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 important | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | Food | the development of a national identity | the particular traditional fenkata conj; historically, important property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stew | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | fry | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | develop | a national identity | nom development «act transitive»: of=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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