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title: In 1249 Frederick II decreed that all remaining Muslims be expelled… — Malta · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1249 Frederick II decreed that all remaining Muslims be expelled from Malta or compelled to convert. Who acts: Frederick. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malta, sentence 76

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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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In 1249 Frederick II decreed that all remaining Muslims be expelled from Malta or compelled to convert.

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**Who acts:** Frederick · **What happens:** decree, remain, expel, compel, convert · **To what, where:** 1249, Muslims, Malta

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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 (Frederick), 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:76
# text = In 1249 Frederick II decreed that all remaining Muslims be expelled from Malta or compelled to convert.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1249	1249	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	decreed	decree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	expelled	expel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Malta	Malta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	compelled	compel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	convert	convert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decree** | past | Frederick |  |  | 1249 |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remain** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **expel** | infinitive · passive |  | all Muslims |  | Malta |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from malta=Source |
| 4 | **compel** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result |
| 5 | **convert** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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