Vatican City, sentence 17
From Wikipedia, «Vatican City», 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.
Vatican itself is derived from the name of an Etruscan settlement, Vatica or Vaticum, located in the general area the Romans called Ager Vaticanus ('Vatican territory').
Who acts: Romans · What happens: derive, locate, call, name · To what, where: Vatican, name, general area, Etruscan settlement · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Romans), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 derived | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 1 Vatican | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 derived | aux:pass |
| 4 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 name | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 derived | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 settlement | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 settlement | det |
| 10 | Etruscan | etruscan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 settlement | amod |
| 11 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 name | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Vatica | punct |
| 13 | Vatica | Vatica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 settlement | appos |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 Vaticum | cc |
| 15 | Vaticum | Vaticum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Vatica | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 located | punct |
| 17 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 derived | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 area | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 area | det |
| 20 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 area | amod |
| 21 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 located | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Romans | det |
| 23 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 called | nsubj |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 area | acl:relcl |
| 25 | Ager | Ager | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 called | xcomp |
| 26 | Vaticanus | Vaticanus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Ager | flat |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 territory | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 territory | punct |
| 29 | Vatican | vatican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 territory | amod |
| 30 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Ager | appos |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 territory | punct |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 territory | punct |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 derived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derive | present · passive | Vatican Treaty | the name of a Etruscan settlement | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from name=Material | ||||
| 2 | locate | participle | the general area | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | call | past | the Romans | the general area not said here | Ager xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent area=Recipient | |||
| 4 | name | a Etruscan settlement | nom name «communication 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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