Vatican City, sentence 52
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.
Between 1861 and 1929, the status of the pope of Rome was referred to as the "Roman Question".
What happens: refer · To what, where: status
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: 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 2 1861 | case |
| 2 | 1861 | 1861 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 referred | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 1929 | cc |
| 4 | 1929 | 1929 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1861 | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1861 | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 status | det |
| 7 | status | status | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 referred | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pope | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pope | det |
| 10 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 status | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Rome | case |
| 12 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 pope | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 referred | aux:pass |
| 14 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 referred | xcomp |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 Question | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Question | det |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Question | punct |
| 19 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Question | amod |
| 20 | Question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 referred | obl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Question | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 referred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | past · passive | the status of the pope of Rome | between 1861; as the Roman Question | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
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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