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title: Formerly it was a walled city surrounded by fortifications and gates… — Malé · tree and pragmatics
description: Formerly it was a walled city surrounded by fortifications and gates (doroshi). Who acts: city. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malé» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malé, sentence 7

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From Wikipedia, [«Malé»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malé), 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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Formerly it was a walled city surrounded by fortifications and gates (doroshi).

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** wall, be, surround · **To what, where:** walled city

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Malé». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city), 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:Malé:7
# text = Formerly it was a walled city surrounded by fortifications and gates (doroshi).
1	Formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	walled	wall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fortifications	fortification	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:agent	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	doroshi	doroshi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | city | a walled city |  |  |  | formerly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **surround** | participle |  | a walled city *not said here* |  |  |  | fortifications and gates *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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, «Malé», 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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