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title: Carnival (Maltese: il-karnival ta' Malta) has had an important place… — Malta · tree and pragmatics
description: Carnival (Maltese: il-karnival ta' Malta) has had an important place on the cultural calendar. Who acts: karnival ta. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malta, sentence 389

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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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Carnival (Maltese: il-karnival ta' Malta) has had an important place on the cultural calendar.

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**Who acts:** karnival ta · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** important place, cultural calendar

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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 (karnival ta), 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:389
# text = Carnival (Maltese: il-karnival ta' Malta) has had an important place on the cultural calendar.
1	Carnival	Carnival	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Maltese	maltese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	il	IL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	karnival	karnival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ta	ta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
10	Malta	Malta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · perfect | karnival ta | a important place |  | the cultural calendar |  | Malta *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |

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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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