--- title: During this period, the strategic and military importance of the isl… — Malta · tree and pragmatics description: During this period, the strategic and military importance of the island grew as the efficient fleet of the Knights of Malta launched their attacks from this new base targeting the shipping lanes of the Ottoman territories around the Mediterranean Sea. 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During this period, the strategic and military importance of the island grew as the efficient fleet of the Knights of Malta launched their attacks from this new base targeting the shipping lanes of the Ottoman territories around the Mediterranean Sea. **Who acts:** strategic importance, efficient fleet, new base, knights · **What happens:** grow, launch, target, attack · **To what, where:** attacks, new base, shipping lanes 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 (strategic importance, efficient fleet, new base, knights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:87 # text = During this period, the strategic and military importance of the island grew as the efficient fleet of the Knights of Malta launched their attacks from this new base targeting the shipping lanes of the Ottoman territories around the Mediterranean Sea. 1 During during ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 period period NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 strategic strategic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 military military ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 importance importance NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 efficient efficient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 fleet fleet NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Knights Knight PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Malta Malta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 launched launch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 attacks attack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 28 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 targeting target VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 acl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 shipping shipping NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 lanes lane NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 Ottoman ottoman ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 territories territory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 38 around around ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 Mediterranean Mediterranean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | the strategic importance of the island | | | | during this period | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **launch** | past | the efficient fleet of the Knights of Malta | knights's attacks | | this new base | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent attack=Theme from base=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **target** | gerund | this new base *not said here* | the shipping lanes of the Ottoman territories around the Mediterranean Sea | | | | | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lane=Theme | | 4 | **attack** | | knights *= knight* | | | | | | nom attack «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malta/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malta/88/) - ↑ back to [Malta](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Malta/)