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title: The largest lakes are, in descending size: Garda (367.94 km2), Maggi… — Italy · tree and pragmatics
description: The largest lakes are, in descending size: Garda (367.94 km2), Maggiore (212.51 km2), and Como (145.9 km2). Who acts: largest lakes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Italy» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Italy, sentence 230

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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 largest lakes are, in descending size: Garda (367.94 km2), Maggiore (212.51 km2), and Como (145.9 km2).

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**Who acts:** largest lakes · **What happens:** descend, be · **To what, where:** descending size

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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 (largest lakes), 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:230
# text = The largest lakes are, in descending size: Garda (367.94 km2), Maggiore (212.51 km2), and Como (145.9 km2).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	descending	descend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Garda	Garda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	367.94	367.94	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	_
13	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Maggiore	Maggiore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	212.51	212.51	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	compound	_	_
19	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Como	Como	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	145.9	145.9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	compound	_	_
26	km2	km2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **descend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the largest lakes |  |  | descending size |  | Garda and Maggiore and Como *appos* | 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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