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title: Marsaxlokk Harbour (Malta Freeport), at Birżebbuġa on the south-east… — Malta · tree and pragmatics
description: Marsaxlokk Harbour (Malta Freeport), at Birżebbuġa on the south-eastern side of Malta, is the islands' main cargo terminal. Who acts: Marsaxlokk. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malta, sentence 267

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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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Marsaxlokk Harbour (Malta Freeport), at Birżebbuġa on the south-eastern side of Malta, is the islands' main cargo terminal.

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**Who acts:** Marsaxlokk · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** main cargo terminal

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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 (Marsaxlokk), 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:267
# text = Marsaxlokk Harbour (Malta Freeport), at Birżebbuġa on the south-eastern side of Malta, is the islands' main cargo terminal.
1	Marsaxlokk	Marsaxlokk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
2	Harbour	Harbour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Malta	Malta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	Freeport	Freeport	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Birżebbuġa	Birżebbuġa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Malta	Malta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	cargo	cargo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	terminal	terminal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Marsaxlokk and Birżebbuġa on the eastern side of Malta | the islands's main cargo terminal |  |  |  | the islands *nmod:poss* | 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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