Italy, sentence 36
From Wikipedia, «Italy», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, and Malta were added to Italy by Diocletian in 292 AD, which made late-ancient Italy coterminous with the modern Italian geographical region.
Who acts: Diocletian, 292 AD · What happens: add, make · To what, where: Malta, Italy, 292 AD, ancient Italy, Sardinia
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Italy». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Diocletian, 292 AD), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sardinia | Sardinia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Corsica | punct |
| 3 | Corsica | Corsica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sardinia | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sicily | punct |
| 5 | Sicily | Sicily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sardinia | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 added | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 added | cc |
| 8 | Malta | Malta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 added | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 added | aux:pass |
| 10 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Sardinia | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Italy | case |
| 12 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 added | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Diocletian | case |
| 14 | Diocletian | Diocletian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 added | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 AD | case |
| 16 | 292 | 292 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 AD | nummod |
| 17 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 added | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 made | nsubj |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 AD | acl:relcl |
| 21 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 made | xcomp |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 late | punct |
| 23 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Italy | amod |
| 24 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obj |
| 25 | coterminous | coterminous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 made | xcomp |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 region | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 region | det |
| 28 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 region | amod |
| 29 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 region | amod |
| 30 | geographical | geographical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 region | amod |
| 31 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 coterminous | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sardinia | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past · passive | Diocletian | Malta | Italy | 292 AD | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to italy=Co-Patient | ||
| 2 | make | past | 292 AD | ancient Italy | coterminous, late property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset italy=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.
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