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title: Near the end of the 15th century, Maltese artists, like their counte… — Malta · tree and pragmatics
description: Near the end of the 15th century, Maltese artists, like their counterparts in Sicily, came under the influence of Antonello da Messina, introducing Renaissance concepts to decorative arts in Malta. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malta, sentence 398

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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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Near the end of the 15th century, Maltese artists, like their counterparts in Sicily, came under the influence of Antonello da Messina, introducing Renaissance concepts to decorative arts in Malta.

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**What happens:** come, introduce · **To what, where:** end, Renaissance concepts

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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: 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:398
# text = Near the end of the 15th century, Maltese artists, like their counterparts in Sicily, came under the influence of Antonello da Messina, introducing Renaissance concepts to decorative arts in Malta.
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	15th	15th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Maltese	maltese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	counterparts	counterpart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Sicily	Sicily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Antonello	Antonello	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	da	Da	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	Messina	Messina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	introducing	introduce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
28	Renaissance	Renaissance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	concepts	concept	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	decorative	decorative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Malta	Malta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  | near the end of the 15th century | under the influence of Antonello | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near end=Location |
| 2 | **introduce** | gerund |  | Renaissance concepts |  |  |  | to decorative arts in Malta | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent concept=Patient to art=Co-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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