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title: According to International IDEA's Global State of Democracy (GSoD) I… — Malta · tree and pragmatics
description: According to International IDEA's Global State of Democracy (GSoD) Indices and Democracy Tracker, Malta is in the mid to high range on overall democratic measures, with weaknesses in corruption and civic engagement. Who acts: Malta. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malta» with its dependency tree and prag
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# Malta, sentence 190

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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 International IDEA's Global State of Democracy (GSoD) Indices and Democracy Tracker, Malta is in the mid to high range on overall democratic measures, with weaknesses in corruption and civic engagement.

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**Who acts:** Malta · **What happens:** accord, be · **To what, where:** mid high range

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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), 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:190
# text = According to International IDEA's Global State of Democracy (GSoD) Indices and Democracy Tracker, Malta is in the mid to high range on overall democratic measures, with weaknesses in corruption and civic engagement.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	International	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
4	IDEA	IDEA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	Global	Global	PROPN	NNP	_	7	compound	_	_
7	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Democracy	Democracy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	GSoD	GSoD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	Indices	index	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Democracy	Democracy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	Tracker	Tracker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	Malta	Malta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	mid	mid	X	AFX	_	25	compound	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	overall	overall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	democratic	democratic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	weaknesses	weakness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	corruption	corruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	civic	civic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	engagement	engagement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | Malta |  |  | the mid high range |  | on overall democratic measures and weaknesses in corruption and civic engagement | tree rules |

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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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