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title: Winter temperatures vary from 0 C in the Alps to 12 C in Sicily; so,… — Italy · tree and pragmatics
description: Winter temperatures vary from 0 C in the Alps to 12 C in Sicily; so, average summer temperatures range from 20 C to over 25 C. Winters can vary widely with lingering cold, foggy, and snowy periods in the north, and milder, sunnier conditions in the south. Who acts: Winter temperatures, average summe
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# Italy, sentence 239

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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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Winter temperatures vary from 0 C in the Alps to 12 C in Sicily; so, average summer temperatures range from 20 C to over 25 C. Winters can vary widely with lingering cold, foggy, and snowy periods in the north, and milder, sunnier conditions in the south.

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**Who acts:** Winter temperatures, average summer temperatures, 25 · **What happens:** vary, range · **To what, where:** 0 C, 20 C

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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 (Winter temperatures, average summer temperatures, 25), 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:239
# text = Winter temperatures vary from 0 C in the Alps to 12 C in Sicily; so, average summer temperatures range from 20 C to over 25 C. Winters can vary widely with lingering cold, foggy, and snowy periods in the north, and milder, sunnier conditions in the south.
1	Winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	vary	vary	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Alps	Alp	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
12	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Sicily	Sicily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	average	average	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	range	range	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	C	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	over	over	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nsubj	_	_
28	C.	c.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	vary	vary	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
32	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	lingering	lingering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	foggy	foggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
40	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	periods	period	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	milder	mild	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	sunnier	sunny	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	50	amod	_	_
50	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vary** | present | Winter temperatures | 0 C |  |  |  | to 12  C in Sicily *result*; in the Alps | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Patient c=Extent to 12=Result in alp=Attribute |
| 2 | **range** | present | average summer temperatures |  |  | 20 C |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from c=Location |
| 3 | **vary** | can | 25 |  |  |  |  | with lingering; widely *property* | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme with lingering=Co-Theme |

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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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