Vatican City, sentence 1
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Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (Stato della Città del Vaticano; Status Civitatis Vaticanae), often shortened as the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state in Southern Europe.
Who acts: Vatican · What happens: shorten, be · To what, where: Stato, landlocked sovereign city state, Southern Europe
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vatican City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vatican), 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 | Vatican | Vatican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 state | nsubj |
| 2 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Vatican | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 State | punct |
| 4 | officially | officially | ADV | _ | 8 State | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 State | det |
| 6 | Vatican | Vatican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 State | compound |
| 7 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 State | compound |
| 8 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Vatican | conj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 Stato | punct |
| 10 | Stato | Stato | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 State | conj |
| 11 | della | della | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Stato | flat |
| 12 | Città | Città | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 del | compound |
| 13 | del | Del | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Stato | flat |
| 14 | Vaticano | Vaticano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Stato | flat |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 Civitatis | punct |
| 16 | Status | Status | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Civitatis | compound |
| 17 | Civitatis | Civitatis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Stato | appos |
| 18 | Vaticanae | Vaticanae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Civitatis | flat |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 Civitatis | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shortened | punct |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 shortened | advmod |
| 22 | shortened | shorten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Stato | acl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 Vatican | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Vatican | det |
| 25 | Vatican | Vatican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 shortened | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Vatican | punct |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 state | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 state | det |
| 29 | landlocked | landlocked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 state | amod |
| 30 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 state | compound |
| 31 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 state | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 city | punct |
| 33 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Europe | case |
| 35 | Southern | Southern | PROPN | _ | 36 Europe | flat |
| 36 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 state | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 state | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shorten | participle | Stato not said here | as the Vatican; often property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Vatican and the Vatican City State and Stato | a landlocked sovereign city state | Southern Europe | tree rules |
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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