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title: King Tancred made Malta a fief and installed a Count of Malta in 1192. — Malta · tree and pragmatics
description: King Tancred made Malta a fief and installed a Count of Malta in 1192. Who acts: King. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malta, sentence 68

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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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King Tancred made Malta a fief and installed a Count of Malta in 1192.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** make, install · **To what, where:** fief, Malta, Count, 1192

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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 (King), 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:68
# text = King Tancred made Malta a fief and installed a Count of Malta in 1192.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Tancred	Tancred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Malta	Malta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fief	fief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	installed	install	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Malta	Malta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1192	1192	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | King | a fief | Malta |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset malta=Beneficiary fief=Product |
| 2 | **install** | past | King *not said here* | a Count of Malta |  | 1192 |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent count=Theme in 1192=Destination |

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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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