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title: In 1971, the Malta Labour Party led by Dom Mintoff won the general e… — Malta · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1971, the Malta Labour Party led by Dom Mintoff won the general elections, resulting in Malta declaring itself a republic on 13 December 1974 within the Commonwealth. Who acts: Malta Labour Party. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malta, sentence 120

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From Wikipedia, [«Malta»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In 1971, the Malta Labour Party led by Dom Mintoff won the general elections, resulting in Malta declaring itself a republic on 13 December 1974 within the Commonwealth.

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**Who acts:** Malta Labour Party · **What happens:** lead, win, result, declare · **To what, where:** Malta Labour Party, general elections, 1971, Malta, party, 13

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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 (Malta Labour Party), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Malta:120
# text = In 1971, the Malta Labour Party led by Dom Mintoff won the general elections, resulting in Malta declaring itself a republic on 13 December 1974 within the Commonwealth.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1971	1971	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Malta	Malta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	Labour	Labour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Party	Party	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Dom	Dom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl:agent	_	_
11	Mintoff	Mintoff	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	resulting	result	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Malta	Malta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	declaring	declare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
26	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:unmarked	_	_
27	1974	1974	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	_
28	within	within	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | participle |  | the Malta Labour Party *not said here* |  |  |  | Dom *obl:agent* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **win** | past | the Malta Labour Party | the general elections |  | 1971 |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent election=Eventuality |
| 3 | **result** | gerund | the Malta Labour Party *not said here* |  |  | Malta |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in malta=Location |
| 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | gerund | the Malta Labour Party *not said here* | party |  | 13  December |  | within the Commonwealth; a republic *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent itself=Theme republic=Attribute |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Malta», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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