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title: For many years, Mannerism continued to inform the tastes and ideals… — Malta · tree and pragmatics
description: For many years, Mannerism continued to inform the tastes and ideals of local Maltese artists. Who acts: Mannerism. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malta, sentence 400

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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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For many years, Mannerism continued to inform the tastes and ideals of local Maltese artists.

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**Who acts:** Mannerism · **What happens:** continue, inform · **To what, where:** tastes

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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 (Mannerism), 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:400
# text = For many years, Mannerism continued to inform the tastes and ideals of local Maltese artists.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Mannerism	mannerism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	inform	inform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tastes	taste	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ideals	ideal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Maltese	maltese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | Mannerism |  |  |  | year |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **inform** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Mannerism *not said here* | the tastes and ideals of local Maltese artists |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent taste=Recipient |

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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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