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Italy, sentence 698

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.

Saint Lucy's Day, on 13 December, is popular among children in some Italian regions, where she plays a role similar to Santa Claus.

Who acts: Day, ceremony · What happens: be, play · To what, where: role

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 (Day, ceremony), 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

compoundnmod:posscasensubjpunctcaseapposnmod:unmarkedpunctcopcaseoblcasedetamodnmodpunctadvmodnsubjacl:relcldetobjamodcaseoblflatpunctrootSaintPROPNLucyPROPN'sPARTDayPROPN,PUNCTonADP13NUMDecemberPROPN,PUNCTisAUXpopularADJamongADPchildrenNOUNinADPsomeDETItalianADJregionsNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVshePRONplaysVERBaDETroleNOUNsimilarADJtoADPSantaPROPNClausPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SaintSaintPROPNNumber=Sing2 Lucycompound
2LucyLucyPROPNNumber=Sing4 Daynmod:poss
3's'sPART_2 Lucycase
4DayDayPROPNNumber=Sing11 popularnsubj
5,,PUNCT_7 13punct
6ononADP_7 13case
71313NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card4 Dayappos
8DecemberDecemberPROPNNumber=Sing7 13nmod:unmarked
9,,PUNCT_4 Daypunct
10isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 popularcop
11popularpopularADJDegree=Posrootroot
12amongamongADP_13 childrencase
13childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur11 popularobl
14ininADP_17 regionscase
15somesomeDETPronType=Ind17 regionsdet
16ItalianItalianADJDegree=Pos17 regionsamod
17regionsregionNOUNNumber=Plur13 childrennmod
18,,PUNCT_21 playspunct
19wherewhereADVPronType=Rel21 playsadvmod
20sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 playsnsubj
21playsplayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 regionsacl:relcl
22aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 roledet
23roleroleNOUNNumber=Sing21 playsobj
24similarsimilarADJDegree=Pos23 roleamod
25totoADP_26 Santacase
26SantaSantaPROPNNumber=Sing24 similarobl
27ClausClausPROPNNumber=Sing26 Santaflat
28..PUNCT_11 popularpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentSaint Lucy's Dayamong children in some Italian regions; popular propertytree rules
2playpresentceremonya rolevn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=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.

Text: the English Wikipedia, «Italy», 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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