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title: As of 2021, an underground Malta Metro is being planned, with a proj… — Valletta · tree and pragmatics
description: As of 2021, an underground Malta Metro is being planned, with a projected total cost of €6.2 billion, centred on the Valletta urban area. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Valletta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Valletta, sentence 172

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From Wikipedia, [«Valletta»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valletta), 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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As of 2021, an underground Malta Metro is being planned, with a projected total cost of €6.2 billion, centred on the Valletta urban area.

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**What happens:** plan, project, centre · **To what, where:** underground Malta Metro, projected total cost, Valletta urban area

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Valletta». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:Valletta:172
# text = As of 2021, an underground Malta Metro is being planned, with a projected total cost of €6.2 billion, centred on the Valletta urban area.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Malta	Malta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Metro	Metro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	projected	project	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
16	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	€	€	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	6.2	6.2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	19	flat	_	_
21	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	centred	centre	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	Valletta	Valletta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan** | present · passive |  | a underground Malta Metro |  |  |  | as 2021; a projected total cost € billion *parataxis* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Topic as 2021=Attribute |
| 2 | **project** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **centre** | participle |  | a projected total cost € billion *not said here* |  | the Valletta urban area |  |  | 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, «Valletta», 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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