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title: Food has been important historically in the development of a nationa… — Malta · tree and pragmatics
description: Food has been important historically in the development of a national identity, in particular the traditional fenkata (i.e., the eating of stewed or fried rabbit). Who acts: Food. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malta, sentence 431

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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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Food has been important historically in the development of a national identity, in particular the traditional fenkata (i.e., the eating of stewed or fried rabbit).

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**Who acts:** Food · **What happens:** be, stew, fry, develop · **To what, where:** development, national identity

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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 (Food), 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:431
# text = Food has been important historically in the development of a national identity, in particular the traditional fenkata (i.e., the eating of stewed or fried rabbit).
1	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	historically	historically	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	identity	identity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fenkata	fenkata	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	eating	eating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	stewed	stew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	fried	fry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
28	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | Food |  |  | the development of a national identity |  | the particular traditional fenkata *conj*; historically, important *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stew** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **fry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **develop** |  |  | a national identity |  |  |  |  | nom development «act transitive»: of=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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