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title: These were most comprehensively compiled by the scholar (and pioneer… — Malta · tree and pragmatics
description: These were most comprehensively compiled by the scholar (and pioneer in Maltese archaeology) Manwel Magri in his core criticism "Ħrejjef Missirijietna" ("Fables from our Forefathers"). Who acts: scholar. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malta, sentence 385

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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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These were most comprehensively compiled by the scholar (and pioneer in Maltese archaeology) Manwel Magri in his core criticism "Ħrejjef Missirijietna" ("Fables from our Forefathers").

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**Who acts:** scholar · **What happens:** compile · **To what, where:** These, core criticism

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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 (scholar), 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:385
# text = These were most comprehensively compiled by the scholar (and pioneer in Maltese archaeology) Manwel Magri in his core criticism "Ħrejjef Missirijietna" ("Fables from our Forefathers").
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	comprehensively	comprehensively	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	compiled	compile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	scholar	scholar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	pioneer	pioneer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Maltese	maltese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	archaeology	archaeology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
16	Manwel	Manwel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
17	Magri	Magri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	core	core	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	criticism	criticism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Ħrejjef	Ħrejjef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	Missirijietna	Missirijietna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	Forefathers	forefather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compile** | past · passive | the scholar | These |  | Manwel's core criticism |  | comprehensively *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |

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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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