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title: Within the southern temperate zone, they determine a Mediterranean c… — Italy · tree and pragmatics
description: Within the southern temperate zone, they determine a Mediterranean climate with local differences. Who acts: lakes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Italy» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Italy, sentence 232

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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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Within the southern temperate zone, they determine a Mediterranean climate with local differences.

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**Who acts:** lakes · **What happens:** temperate, determine · **To what, where:** Mediterranean climate

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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 (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:232
# text = Within the southern temperate zone, they determine a Mediterranean climate with local differences.
1	Within	within	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	temperate	temperate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	compound	_	_
5	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	determine	determine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	differences	difference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **temperate** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **determine** | present | lakes *= lake* | a Mediterranean climate |  |  |  | within the southern temperate zone; with local differences | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent climate=Topic |

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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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