--- title: Malta is an Apostolic See; the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 28) tells… — Malta · tree and pragmatics description: Malta is an Apostolic See; the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 28) tells of how St. Paul was shipwrecked on the island of "Melite", which many Biblical scholars identify with Malta, an episode dated around AD 60. Who acts: Malta Apostolic See, many Biblical scholars. 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Malta is an Apostolic See; the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 28) tells of how St. Paul was shipwrecked on the island of "Melite", which many Biblical scholars identify with Malta, an episode dated around AD 60. **Who acts:** Malta Apostolic See, many Biblical scholars · **What happens:** be, tell, shipwreck, identify, date · **To what, where:** Malta Apostolic See, Paul, island, Melite, episode, AD · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 Apostolic See, many Biblical scholars), 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:320 # text = Malta is an Apostolic See; the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 28) tells of how St. Paul was shipwrecked on the island of "Melite", which many Biblical scholars identify with Malta, an episode dated around AD 60. 1 Malta Malta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Apostolic Apostolic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 See See PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Acts Act PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Apostles Apostle PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Acts act NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 appos _ _ 14 28 28 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 16 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 of of SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 19 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:desc _ _ 20 Paul Paul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 shipwrecked shipwreck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 ccomp _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Melite Melite PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 obj _ _ 32 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 Biblical biblical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 scholars scholar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 identify identify VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Malta Malta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 episode episode NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 41 dated date VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl _ _ 42 around around ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 AD ad NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 44 60 60 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 43 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | a Malta Apostolic See | | | | the Acts of the Apostles *nmod* | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a Malta Apostolic See | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **shipwreck** | past · passive | | Paul St. | | the island of Melite | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **identify** | present | many Biblical scholars | Melite | | | | with Malta | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 5 | **date** | participle | | a episode *not said here* | | AD | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=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 319](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malta/319/) - next →: [sentence 321](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malta/321/) - ↑ back to [Malta](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malta/)