--- title: Its border with France runs for 488 km; Switzerland, 740 km; Austria… — Italy · tree and pragmatics description: Its border with France runs for 488 km; Switzerland, 740 km; Austria, 430 km; and Slovenia, 232 km. Who acts: border. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Italy» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Italy/219/) [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/) / 219 # Italy, sentence 219 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. Its border with France runs for 488 km; Switzerland, 740 km; Austria, 430 km; and Slovenia, 232 km. **Who acts:** border · **What happens:** run · **To what, where:** Switzerland 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 (border), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Italy:219 # text = Its border with France runs for 488 km; Switzerland, 740 km; Austria, 430 km; and Slovenia, 232 km. 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 border border NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 488 488 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Switzerland Switzerland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 740 740 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Austria Austria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 430 430 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 Slovenia Slovenia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 232 232 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | present | Sea's border with France | Switzerland | | | | for 488 km; Austria *obl*; Slovenia *obl* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for km=Beneficiary | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 218](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Italy/218/) - next →: [sentence 220](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Italy/220/) - ↑ back to [Italy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Italy/)