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title: Francesco Laparelli was the city's principal designer and his plan d… — Valletta · tree and pragmatics
description: Francesco Laparelli was the city's principal designer and his plan departed from medieval Maltese architecture, which exhibited irregular winding streets and alleys. Who acts: Francesco, plan, medieval Maltese architecture. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Valletta» with its dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Valletta, sentence 34

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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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Francesco Laparelli was the city's principal designer and his plan departed from medieval Maltese architecture, which exhibited irregular winding streets and alleys.

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**Who acts:** Francesco, plan, medieval Maltese architecture · **What happens:** be, depart, exhibit, plan · **To what, where:** principal designer, medieval Maltese architecture, irregular winding streets

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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: who acts (Francesco, plan, medieval Maltese architecture), 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:34
# text = Francesco Laparelli was the city's principal designer and his plan departed from medieval Maltese architecture, which exhibited irregular winding streets and alleys.
1	Francesco	Francesco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	Laparelli	Laparelli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	designer	designer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	medieval	medieval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Maltese	maltese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	architecture	architecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	exhibited	exhibit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	irregular	irregular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	winding	winding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	alleys	alley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Francesco | the city's principal designer |  |  |  | the city *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **depart** | past | Francesco's plan |  |  | medieval Maltese architecture |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from architecture=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **exhibit** | past | medieval Maltese architecture | irregular winding streets and alleys |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Theme |
| 4 | **plan** |  | Francesco |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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