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title: As the peninsula is in the centre of the Mediterranean, forming a co… — Italy · tree and pragmatics
description: As the peninsula is in the centre of the Mediterranean, forming a corridor between Central Europe and North Africa, and having 8,000 km of coastline, Italy has received species from the Balkans, Eurasia, and the Middle East. Who acts: Italy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Italy» with its dependency tree
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# Italy, sentence 243

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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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As the peninsula is in the centre of the Mediterranean, forming a corridor between Central Europe and North Africa, and having 8,000 km of coastline, Italy has received species from the Balkans, Eurasia, and the Middle East.

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**Who acts:** Italy · **What happens:** be, form, have, receive · **To what, where:** centre, corridor, 8,000 km

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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 (Italy), 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:243
# text = As the peninsula is in the centre of the Mediterranean, forming a corridor between Central Europe and North Africa, and having 8,000 km of coastline, Italy has received species from the Balkans, Eurasia, and the Middle East.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	forming	form	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	corridor	corridor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
17	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
24	8,000	8,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	km	km	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	coastline	coastline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	amod	_	_
32	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Balkans	Balkan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Eurasia	Eurasia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the centre and the Middle East |  | as the peninsula; of the Mediterranean; the Middle East *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | gerund |  | a corridor |  |  |  | between Central Europe and North Africa | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location corridor=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | gerund |  | 8,000 km of coastline |  |  |  | received species *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **receive** | present · perfect | Italy |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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