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title: In 1552, the Aragonese watchtower was demolished and the larger Fort… — Valletta · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1552, the Aragonese watchtower was demolished and the larger Fort Saint Elmo was built in its place. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Valletta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Valletta, sentence 23

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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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In 1552, the Aragonese watchtower was demolished and the larger Fort Saint Elmo was built in its place.

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**What happens:** demolish, build · **To what, where:** Aragonese watchtower, 1552, larger, place

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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:23
# text = In 1552, the Aragonese watchtower was demolished and the larger Fort Saint Elmo was built in its place.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1552	1552	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Aragonese	aragonese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	watchtower	watchtower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	demolished	demolish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
11	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	Fort	Fort	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	Elmo	Elmo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demolish** | past · passive |  | the Aragonese watchtower |  | 1552 |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **build** | past · passive |  | larger |  | watchtower's place |  | Fort *nsubj:pass* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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