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title: In 1935, Mussolini invaded Ethiopia and founded Italian East Africa,… — Italy · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1935, Mussolini invaded Ethiopia and founded Italian East Africa, resulting in international isolation. Who acts: Mussolini. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Italy» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Italy, sentence 164

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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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In 1935, Mussolini invaded Ethiopia and founded Italian East Africa, resulting in international isolation.

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**Who acts:** Mussolini · **What happens:** invade, found, result · **To what, where:** Ethiopia, 1935, Italian East, international isolation

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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: who acts (Mussolini), 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:164
# text = In 1935, Mussolini invaded Ethiopia and founded Italian East Africa, resulting in international isolation.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1935	1935	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Mussolini	Mussolini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	invaded	invade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	resulting	result	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	international	international	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	isolation	isolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invade** | past | Mussolini | Ethiopia |  | 1935 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **found** | past | Mussolini *not said here* | Italian East |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent east=Patient |
| 3 | **result** | gerund | Mussolini *not said here* |  |  | international isolation |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in isolation=Location |

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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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