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title: This sometimes consists of background folk guitar music, while a few… — Malta · tree and pragmatics
description: This sometimes consists of background folk guitar music, while a few people, generally men, take it in turns to argue a point in a sing-song voice. Who acts: This, few people. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malta, sentence 414

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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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This sometimes consists of background folk guitar music, while a few people, generally men, take it in turns to argue a point in a sing-song voice.

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**Who acts:** This, few people · **What happens:** consist, take, argue · **To what, where:** music, turns, point, song voice

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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 (This, few people), 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:414
# text = This sometimes consists of background folk guitar music, while a few people, generally men, take it in turns to argue a point in a sing-song voice.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
3	consists	consist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	background	background	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	guitar	guitar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	argue	argue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | present | This |  |  |  |  | of background guitar music; sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | a few people and men | music |  | turns |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in turn=Location |
| 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | to-infinitive | a few people and men *not said here* | a point |  | a song voice |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent point=Topic |

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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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