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title: The island of Malé is the eighth most densely populated island in th… — Malé · tree and pragmatics
description: The island of Malé is the eighth most densely populated island in the world, and it is the 160th most populous island in the world. Who acts: island, eighth, world. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Malé» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Malé, sentence 94

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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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The island of Malé is the eighth most densely populated island in the world, and it is the 160th most populous island in the world.

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**Who acts:** island, eighth, world · **What happens:** be, populate · **To what, where:** eighth, island, world, 160th

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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 (island, eighth, world), 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:94
# text = The island of Malé is the eighth most densely populated island in the world, and it is the 160th most populous island in the world.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Malé	Malé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	eighth	eighth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	densely	densely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	populated	populate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	160th	160th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	7	conj	_	_
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	populous	populous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the island of Malé | the eighth and the 160th |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **populate** | participle | the eighth and the 160th *not said here* | island |  | the world |  | densely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | world | the 160th |  |  |  | populous island in the world *appos* | tree rules |

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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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