Vatican City, sentence 292
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.
In 2019, there were 20 children of the Swiss Guards living at the Vatican.
Who acts: 20 children, Swiss Guards · What happens: be, live · To what, where: 2019, Vatican
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 (20 children, Swiss Guards), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 2019 | case |
| 2 | 2019 | 2019 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 were | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 2019 | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 were | expl |
| 5 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 children | nummod |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 were | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Guards | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Guards | det |
| 10 | Swiss | Swiss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Guards | compound |
| 11 | Guards | Guard | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 children | nmod |
| 12 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 Guards | acl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Vatican | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Vatican | det |
| 15 | Vatican | Vatican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 living | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | 20 children of the Swiss Guards | 2019; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2019=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | the Swiss Guards not said here | the Vatican | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at vatican=Location |
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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