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title: Thus, there was a natural population increase of 835 (compared to +8… — Malta · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, there was a natural population increase of 835 (compared to +888 for 2004, of which over a hundred were foreign residents). Who acts: natural population increase. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malta, sentence 296

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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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Thus, there was a natural population increase of 835 (compared to +888 for 2004, of which over a hundred were foreign residents).

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**Who acts:** natural population increase · **What happens:** be, compare · **To what, where:** natural population increase, hundred foreign residents

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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 (natural population increase), 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:296
# text = Thus, there was a natural population increase of 835 (compared to +888 for 2004, of which over a hundred were foreign residents).
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	increase	increase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	835	835	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	888	888	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a natural population increase of 835 |  |  | there |  | thus *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **compare** | participle |  | a natural population increase of 835 *not said here* |  |  |  | to 888 for 2004 | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | hundred foreign residents |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | 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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