San Marino, sentence 24
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.
A long process was held using various witnesses and sources to determine San Marino tax exemption status.
What happens: hold, use, determine · To what, where: long process, various witnesses, San
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 process | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 process | amod |
| 3 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | aux:pass |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 held | advcl |
| 7 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 witnesses | amod |
| 8 | witnesses | witness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 using | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sources | cc |
| 10 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 witnesses | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 determine | mark |
| 12 | determine | determine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 using | advcl |
| 13 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 determine | obj |
| 14 | Marino | Marino | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 San | flat |
| 15 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 exemption | compound |
| 16 | exemption | exemption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 status | compound |
| 17 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 San | appos |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · passive | a long process | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | use | gerund | various witnesses and sources | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Patient | |||||
| 3 | determine | to-infinitive | San | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent san=Topic |
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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