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title: Most of the foreign community in Malta consists of active or retired… — Malta · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of the foreign community in Malta consists of active or retired British nationals and their dependents, centred on Sliema and surrounding suburbs. Who acts: Most. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malta, sentence 346

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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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Most of the foreign community in Malta consists of active or retired British nationals and their dependents, centred on Sliema and surrounding suburbs.

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**Who acts:** Most · **What happens:** consist, centre, surround · **To what, where:** active British nationals, Sliema, suburbs

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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 (Most), 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:346
# text = Most of the foreign community in Malta consists of active or retired British nationals and their dependents, centred on Sliema and surrounding suburbs.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Malta	Malta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	consists	consist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	retired	retired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	nationals	national	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	dependents	dependent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	centred	centre	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Sliema	Sliema	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
24	suburbs	suburb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | present | Most of the foreign community in Malta |  |  |  |  | of active British nationals and nationals's dependents | tree rules |
| 2 | **centre** | participle |  | active British nationals and nationals's dependents *not said here* |  | Sliema |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **surround** | gerund |  | suburbs |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme suburb=Co-Theme |

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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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