Valletta, sentence 34
From Wikipedia, «Valletta», 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.
Francesco Laparelli was the city's principal designer and his plan departed from medieval Maltese architecture, which exhibited irregular winding streets and alleys.
Who acts: Francesco, plan, medieval Maltese architecture · What happens: be, depart, exhibit, plan · To what, where: principal designer, medieval Maltese architecture, irregular winding streets
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Valletta». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Francesco, plan, medieval Maltese architecture), 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 | Francesco | Francesco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 designer | nsubj |
| 2 | Laparelli | Laparelli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Francesco | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 designer | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 designer | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 city | case |
| 7 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 designer | amod |
| 8 | designer | designer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 departed | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 plan | nmod:poss |
| 11 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 departed | nsubj |
| 12 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 designer | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 architecture | case |
| 14 | medieval | medieval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 architecture | amod |
| 15 | Maltese | maltese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 architecture | amod |
| 16 | architecture | architecture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 departed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 exhibited | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 exhibited | nsubj |
| 19 | exhibited | exhibit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 architecture | acl:relcl |
| 20 | irregular | irregular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 streets | amod |
| 21 | winding | winding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 streets | compound |
| 22 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 exhibited | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 alleys | cc |
| 24 | alleys | alley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 streets | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 designer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Francesco | the city's principal designer | the city nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | depart | past | Francesco's plan | medieval Maltese architecture | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from architecture=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | exhibit | past | medieval Maltese architecture | irregular winding streets and alleys | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Theme | ||||
| 4 | plan | Francesco | nom plan «cognition 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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