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title: A defensive alliance known as the Italic League was formed between V… — Italy · tree and pragmatics
description: A defensive alliance known as the Italic League was formed between Venice, Naples, Florence, Milan, and the Papacy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Italy» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Italy, sentence 104

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From Wikipedia, [«Italy»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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A defensive alliance known as the Italic League was formed between Venice, Naples, Florence, Milan, and the Papacy.

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**What happens:** know, form · **To what, where:** defensive alliance

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Italy». 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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Italy:104
# text = A defensive alliance known as the Italic League was formed between Venice, Naples, Florence, Milan, and the Papacy.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	defensive	defensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	alliance	alliance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Italic	Italic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	League	League	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Naples	Naples	PROPN	NNP	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Florence	Florence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Milan	Milan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Papacy	papacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  | a defensive alliance *not said here* |  |  |  | as the Italic League | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as league=Attribute |
| 2 | **form** | past · passive |  | a defensive alliance |  |  |  | between Venice and Naples and Florence and Milan; the Papacy *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Italy», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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