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title: According to the United Nations, about 95 percent of the area of Mal… — Malta · tree and pragmatics
description: According to the United Nations, about 95 percent of the area of Malta is urban and the number grows every year. Who acts: 95 percent, number. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malta, sentence 159

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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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According to the United Nations, about 95 percent of the area of Malta is urban and the number grows every year.

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**Who acts:** 95 percent, number · **What happens:** accord, be, grow

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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 (95 percent, number), 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:159
# text = According to the United Nations, about 95 percent of the area of Malta is urban and the number grows every year.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	5	compound	_	_
5	Nations	Nation	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	95	95	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Malta	Malta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | 95 percent of the area of Malta |  |  |  |  | accord the United Nations; urban *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | present | the number |  |  |  | year |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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