Vatican City, sentence 67
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.
After the United States entered into the war, US officials were against bombing the Vatican City, fearful of offending Catholic members of the American military, but said that "they could not stop the British from bombing Rome if the British so decided".
Who acts: United States, US officials, officials · What happens: enter, bomb, offend, say, not stop · To what, where: war, Vatican City, Catholic members, British, Rome · 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 (United States, US officials, officials), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 entered | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 States | det |
| 3 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 States | amod |
| 4 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 entered | nsubj |
| 5 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 said | advcl |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 war | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 war | det |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bombing | punct |
| 10 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 officials | compound |
| 11 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bombing | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bombing | aux |
| 13 | against | against | SCONJ | _ | 14 bombing | mark |
| 14 | bombing | bomb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 entered | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 City | det |
| 16 | Vatican | Vatican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 City | compound |
| 17 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 bombing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fearful | punct |
| 19 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 City | conj |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 offending | mark |
| 21 | offending | offend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 fearful | advcl |
| 22 | Catholic | catholic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 members | amod |
| 23 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 offending | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 military | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 military | det |
| 26 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 military | amod |
| 27 | military | military | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 members | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 said | cc |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 stop | mark |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 stop | punct |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 stop | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 stop | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 stop | advmod |
| 36 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 said | ccomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 British | det |
| 38 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 stop | obj |
| 39 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 40 bombing | mark |
| 40 | bombing | bomb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 stop | advcl |
| 41 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 bombing | obj |
| 42 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 44 British | mark |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 British | det |
| 44 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 bombing | obl |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 decided | advmod |
| 46 | decided | decided | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 British | obl |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 British | punct |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the United States | the war | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into war=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | bomb | past · progressive | US officials | the Vatican City | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient | ||||
| 3 | offend | gerund | US officials not said here | Catholic members of the American military | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus member=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | not stop in a quote | could | officials = official | the British | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality british=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | bomb in a quote | gerund | officials = official not said here | Rome | the British decided obl | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rome=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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