--- title: Malta contains 4.6 km2 of naturally regenerating forest, characteris… — Malta · tree and pragmatics description: Malta contains 4.6 km2 of naturally regenerating forest, characterised by mature trees with a height of 2 to 5 m. The overall area occupied by trees is estimated to be 32 km2, which constitutes approximately 1.44% of the total land area of the archipelago. Who acts: Malta, 2 m.. 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The overall area occupied by trees is estimated to be 32 km2, which constitutes approximately 1.44% of the total land area of the archipelago. **Who acts:** Malta, 2 m. · **What happens:** contain, regenerate, characteris, occupy, estimate, be · **To what, where:** 4.6 km2, forest, overall area, 32 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, 2 m.), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Malta:170 # text = Malta contains 4.6 km2 of naturally regenerating forest, characterised by mature trees with a height of 2 to 5 m. The overall area occupied by trees is estimated to be 32 km2, which constitutes approximately 1.44% of the total land area of the archipelago. 1 Malta Malta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 contains contain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 4.6 4.6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 compound _ _ 4 km2 km2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 5 of of SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 naturally naturally ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 regenerating regenerate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 8 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 characterised characteris VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 mature mature ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:agent _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nmod _ _ 21 m. m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 22 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 overall overall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 occupied occupy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 estimated estimate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl:relcl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 32 32 32 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 obl _ _ 33 km2 km2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 constitutes constitute VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 37 approximately approximately ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 1.44 1.44 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 archipelago archipelago NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **contain** | present | Malta | 4.6 km2 | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **regenerate** | gerund | Malta *not said here* | forest | | | | naturally *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **characteris** | participle | | forest *not said here* | | | | mature trees with a height of 2 m. *obl:agent* | tree rules | | 4 | **occupy** | participle | | the overall area *not said here* | | | | by trees | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **estimate** | present · passive | 2 m. *not said here* | the overall area | | | | | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | | 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | 32 | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **constitute** | present | | | | | | which *nsubj* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme %=Pivot | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 169](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malta/169/) - next →: [sentence 171](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malta/171/) - ↑ back to [Malta](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malta/)