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title: Fascism was based upon Italian nationalism and imperialism, seeking… — Italy · tree and pragmatics
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# Italy, sentence 162

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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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Fascism was based upon Italian nationalism and imperialism, seeking to expand Italian possessions via irredentist claims based on the legacy of the Roman and Venetian empires.

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**What happens:** base, seek, expand · **To what, where:** Fascism, Italian possessions, irredentist claims, legacy

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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:162
# text = Fascism was based upon Italian nationalism and imperialism, seeking to expand Italian possessions via irredentist claims based on the legacy of the Roman and Venetian empires.
1	Fascism	Fascism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	nationalism	nationalism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	imperialism	imperialism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	expand	expand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	via	via	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	irredentist	irredentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	legacy	legacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Venetian	venetian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	empires	empire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **base** | past · passive |  | Fascism |  |  |  | upon Italian nationalism and imperialism | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **expand** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Italian possessions |  |  |  | via irredentist claims | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent possession=Patient |
| 4 | **base** | participle |  | irredentist claims *not said here* |  | the legacy of the Roman empires |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on legacy=Source |

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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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