---
title: A radical figure was the patriotic journalist Giuseppe Mazzini, foun… — Italy · tree and pragmatics
description: A radical figure was the patriotic journalist Giuseppe Mazzini, founder of the political movement Young Italy in the 1830s, who favoured a unitary republic and advocated a broad nationalist movement. Who acts: radical figure, 1830s. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Italy» with its dependency tree and prag
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Italy/122/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Italy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Italy/) / 122

# Italy, sentence 122

<!-- div src -->

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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A radical figure was the patriotic journalist Giuseppe Mazzini, founder of the political movement Young Italy in the 1830s, who favoured a unitary republic and advocated a broad nationalist movement.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** radical figure, 1830s · **What happens:** be, favour, advocate · **To what, where:** patriotic journalist, unitary republic, broad nationalist movement

<!-- .vabout -->
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: who acts (radical figure, 1830s), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:122
# text = A radical figure was the patriotic journalist Giuseppe Mazzini, founder of the political movement Young Italy in the 1830s, who favoured a unitary republic and advocated a broad nationalist movement.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	radical	radical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	patriotic	patriotic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	journalist	journalist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	Giuseppe	Giuseppe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	Mazzini	Mazzini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	founder	founder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	1830s	1830	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	favoured	favour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	unitary	unitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	advocated	advocate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	nationalist	nationalist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | a radical figure | the patriotic journalist and founder of the political movement in the 1830s |  |  |  | Giuseppe *appos*; founder of the political movement in the 1830s *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **favour** | past | the 1830s | a unitary republic |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **advocate** | past | the 1830s *not said here* | a broad nationalist movement |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Italy/121/)
- next →: [sentence 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Italy/123/)
- ↑ back to [Italy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Italy/)