San Marino, sentence 132
From Wikipedia, «San Marino», 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.
The functions of the Guard of the council are to protect the captains regent, and to defend the Grand and General Council during its formal sessions.
Who acts: functions · What happens: be, defend · To what, where: Grand
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «San Marino». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (functions), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 functions | det |
| 2 | functions | function | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 protect | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Guard | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Guard | det |
| 5 | Guard | Guard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 functions | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 council | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 council | det |
| 8 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 functions | nmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 protect | cop |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 protect | mark |
| 11 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 regent | det |
| 13 | captains | captain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 regent | compound |
| 14 | regent | regent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 protect | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 defend | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 defend | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 defend | mark |
| 18 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 protect | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Grand | det |
| 20 | Grand | Grand | PROPN | _ | 18 defend | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Council | cc |
| 22 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Council | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Grand | conj |
| 24 | during | during | ADP | _ | 27 sessions | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sessions | nmod:poss |
| 26 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sessions | amod |
| 27 | sessions | session | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 defend | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 protect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the functions of the Guard of the council | the captains regent obj; protect property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | defend | to-infinitive | the functions of the Guard of the council not said here | the Grand and Council General | during unit's formal sessions | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grand=Beneficiary |
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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