--- title: The public tender was won by Arriva Malta, which introduced a fleet… — Malta · tree and pragmatics description: The public tender was won by Arriva Malta, which introduced a fleet of brand new buses, built by King Long especially for service by Arriva Malta and including a smaller fleet of articulated buses brought in from Arriva London. Who acts: Arriva. 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The public tender was won by Arriva Malta, which introduced a fleet of brand new buses, built by King Long especially for service by Arriva Malta and including a smaller fleet of articulated buses brought in from Arriva London. **Who acts:** Arriva · **What happens:** win, introduce, build, include, articulate, bring in · **To what, where:** public tender, fleet, smaller fleet, articulated buses, Arriva London 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 (Arriva), 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:256 # text = The public tender was won by Arriva Malta, which introduced a fleet of brand new buses, built by King Long especially for service by Arriva Malta and including a smaller fleet of articulated buses brought in from Arriva London. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 tender tender NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 won win VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Arriva Arriva PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl:agent _ _ 8 Malta Malta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 introduced introduce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 fleet fleet NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 brand brand ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 buses bus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:desc _ _ 22 Long Long ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 19 obl _ _ 23 especially especially ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Arriva Arriva PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 Malta Malta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 flat _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 flat _ _ 30 including include VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 acl _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 amod _ _ 33 fleet fleet NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 articulated articulate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 amod _ _ 36 buses bus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 37 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl _ _ 38 in in ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 Arriva Arriva PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** | past · passive | Arriva | the public tender | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **introduce** | past | Arriva | a fleet of new buses | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleet=Patient | | 3 | **build** | participle | Arriva *not said here* | | | | | by Long King; for service by Arriva; especially *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for service=Asset | | 4 | **include** | gerund | | a smaller fleet of articulated buses | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleet=Theme | | 5 | **articulate** *speech: other* | participle | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **bring in** | participle | | articulated buses *not said here* | | Arriva London | | | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **service** | | Arriva | | | | | | nom service «act transitive»: by=agent | 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 255](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malta/255/) - next →: [sentence 257](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malta/257/) - ↑ back to [Malta](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malta/)