--- title: The streets were designed to be wide and straight, beginning central… — Valletta · tree and pragmatics description: The streets were designed to be wide and straight, beginning centrally from the City Gate and ending at Fort Saint Elmo (which was rebuilt) overlooking the Mediterranean; certain bastions were built 47 m high. 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The streets were designed to be wide and straight, beginning centrally from the City Gate and ending at Fort Saint Elmo (which was rebuilt) overlooking the Mediterranean; certain bastions were built 47 m high. **What happens:** design, be, begin, end, rebuild, overlook · **To what, where:** streets, City Gate, Fort Saint, Mediterranean, certain bastions 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. **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:36 # text = The streets were designed to be wide and straight, beginning centrally from the City Gate and ending at Fort Saint Elmo (which was rebuilt) overlooking the Mediterranean; certain bastions were built 47 m high. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 designed design VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 7 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 beginning begin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 12 centrally centrally ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Gate Gate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 ending end VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 Fort Fort PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Saint Saint PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 Elmo Elmo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 rebuilt rebuild VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 28 overlooking overlook VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Mediterranean Mediterranean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 bastions bastion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 36 47 47 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 m m NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl:unmarked _ _ 38 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **design** | past · passive | | the streets | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | wide *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **begin** | gerund | | | | the City Gate | | centrally *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **end** | gerund | | | | Fort Saint | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **rebuild** | past · passive | | Fort Saint | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 7 | **overlook** | gerund | | the Mediterranean | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mediterranean=Theme | | 8 | **build** | past · passive | | certain bastions | | | | high *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Valletta/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Valletta/37/) - ↑ back to [Valletta](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Valletta/)