Malta, sentence 87
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.
During this period, the strategic and military importance of the island grew as the efficient fleet of the Knights of Malta launched their attacks from this new base targeting the shipping lanes of the Ottoman territories around the Mediterranean Sea.
Who acts: strategic importance, efficient fleet, new base, knights · What happens: grow, launch, target, attack · To what, where: attacks, new base, shipping lanes
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 (strategic importance, efficient fleet, new base, knights), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 period | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 period | det |
| 3 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grew | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 period | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 importance | det |
| 6 | strategic | strategic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 importance | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 military | cc |
| 8 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 strategic | conj |
| 9 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 island | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 island | det |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 importance | nmod |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 launched | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fleet | det |
| 16 | efficient | efficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fleet | amod |
| 17 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 launched | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Knights | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Knights | det |
| 20 | Knights | Knight | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 fleet | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Malta | case |
| 22 | Malta | Malta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Knights | nmod |
| 23 | launched | launch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 grew | advcl |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 attacks | nmod:poss |
| 25 | attacks | attack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 launched | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 base | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 base | det |
| 28 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 base | amod |
| 29 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 launched | obl |
| 30 | targeting | target | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 base | acl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 lanes | det |
| 32 | shipping | shipping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lanes | compound |
| 33 | lanes | lane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 targeting | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 territories | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 territories | det |
| 36 | Ottoman | ottoman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 territories | amod |
| 37 | territories | territory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 lanes | nmod |
| 38 | around | around | ADP | _ | 41 Sea | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Sea | det |
| 40 | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Sea | compound |
| 41 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 territories | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the strategic importance of the island | during this period | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | launch | past | the efficient fleet of the Knights of Malta | knights's attacks | this new base | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent attack=Theme from base=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | target | gerund | this new base not said here | the shipping lanes of the Ottoman territories around the Mediterranean Sea | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lane=Theme | ||||
| 4 | attack | knights = knight | nom attack «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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