Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands, sentence 1

In Europa Universalis 5 the Papal States cover a big part of central Italy, and dozens of little Italian states sit beside them; almost all were swallowed up by Italy by 1870, but San Marino and the Vatican survive.

Who acts: Papal States, dozens, Italy, San · What happens: cover, sit, swallow up, survive · To what, where: big part, all

This is a sentence of the lesson «Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Papal States, dozens, Italy, San), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Europa	case
2	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cover	obl
3	Universalis	Universalis	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Europa	flat
4	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Europa	flat
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 States	det
6	Papal	Papal	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 States	compound
7	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 cover	nsubj
8	cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 part	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 part	amod
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cover	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Italy	case
13	central	central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Italy	amod
14	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 part	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sit	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sit	cc
17	dozens	dozen	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sit	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 states	case
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 states	amod
20	Italian	Italian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 states	amod
21	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 dozens	nmod
22	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cover	conj
23	beside	beside	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sit	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 swallowed	punct
26	almost	almost	ADV	_	27 all	advmod
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 swallowed	nsubj:pass
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 swallowed	aux:pass
29	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 sit	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 swallowed	compound:prt
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 Italy	case
32	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 swallowed	obl
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 1870	case
34	1870	1870	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 swallowed	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 survive	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 survive	cc
37	San	San	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 survive	nsubj
38	Marino	Marino	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 San	flat
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 Vatican	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Vatican	det
41	Vatican	Vatican	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 San	conj
42	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 swallowed	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cover	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cover	present	the Papal States	a big part of central Italy	in Europa	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent part=Destination in europa=Theme
2	sit	present	dozens of little Italian states		beside States = state	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside they=Location
3	swallow up	past · passive	Italy	all	by 1870	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4	survive	present	San and the Vatican			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:geography:039-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands.lesson:1.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the release 0.4.

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