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title: The sovereign states of San Marino and Vatican City (the smallest co… — Italy · tree and pragmatics
description: The sovereign states of San Marino and Vatican City (the smallest country in the world and headquarters of the worldwide Catholic Church under the governance of the Holy See) are enclaves within Italy, while Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. Who acts: sovereign states, Campione
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# Italy, sentence 220

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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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The sovereign states of San Marino and Vatican City (the smallest country in the world and headquarters of the worldwide Catholic Church under the governance of the Holy See) are enclaves within Italy, while Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland.

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**Who acts:** sovereign states, Campione d'Italia · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** enclaves, Italian exclave, Switzerland

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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 (sovereign states, Campione d'Italia), 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:220
# text = The sovereign states of San Marino and Vatican City (the smallest country in the world and headquarters of the worldwide Catholic Church under the governance of the Holy See) are enclaves within Italy, while Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	Marino	Marino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	Vatican	Vatican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	headquarters	headquarters	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	worldwide	worldwide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	Catholic	Catholic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	under	under	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	governance	governance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	30	compound	_	_
30	See	See	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	enclaves	enclave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
34	within	within	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
37	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
38	Campione	Campione	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	d'Italia	d'italia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	exclave	exclave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the sovereign states of San and Vatican City | enclaves and a Italian exclave |  |  |  | within Italy | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Campione d'Italia | a Italian exclave |  | Switzerland |  |  | tree rules |

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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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