Italy, sentence 659
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.
Significant changes occurred with the discovery of the New World, with items such as potatoes, tomatoes, and maize becoming main ingredients from the 18th century.
Who acts: maize · What happens: occur, become, discover · To what, where: Significant changes, main ingredients, New World
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 (maize), 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 | Significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 changes | amod |
| 2 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | occurred | occur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 changes | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 discovery | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 discovery | det |
| 6 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 occurred | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 World | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 World | det |
| 9 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 World | amod |
| 10 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 discovery | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 items | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 items | case |
| 13 | items | item | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 occurred | obl |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 16 potatoes | case |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 such | fixed |
| 16 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 items | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tomatoes | punct |
| 18 | tomatoes | tomato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 potatoes | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 maize | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 maize | cc |
| 21 | maize | maize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 changes | conj |
| 22 | becoming | become | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 maize | acl |
| 23 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ingredients | amod |
| 24 | ingredients | ingredient | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 becoming | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 century | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 century | det |
| 27 | 18th | 18th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 28 century | amod |
| 28 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 becoming | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 changes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | participle | Significant changes and maize not said here | with the discovery of the New World; with items such potatoes and tomatoes | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | gerund | maize not said here | main ingredients | century | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient ingredient=Result | |||
| 4 | discover | the New World | nom discovery «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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