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title: When the Knights Hospitaller were removed by the French, Maltese rev… — Malta · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Knights Hospitaller were removed by the French, Maltese revolt led the British to seize Valetta. Who acts: French Maltese revolt. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malta, sentence 165

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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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When the Knights Hospitaller were removed by the French, Maltese revolt led the British to seize Valetta.

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**Who acts:** French Maltese revolt · **What happens:** remove, lead, seize · **To what, where:** Knights Hospitaller, Valetta

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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 (French Maltese revolt), 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:165
# text = When the Knights Hospitaller were removed by the French, Maltese revolt led the British to seize Valetta.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Knights	Knight	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	Hospitaller	Hospitaller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	Maltese	maltese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	revolt	revolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
18	Valetta	Valetta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** | past · passive | the French Maltese revolt | the Knights Hospitaller |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | past |  |  |  |  |  | british *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **seize** | to-infinitive |  | Valetta |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valetta=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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