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title: The fauna of Italy includes 4,777 endemic animal species, which incl… — Italy · tree and pragmatics
description: The fauna of Italy includes 4,777 endemic animal species, which include the Sardinian long-eared bat, Sardinian red deer, spectacled salamander, brown cave salamander, Italian newt, Italian frog, Apennine yellow-bellied toad, Italian wall lizard, and Sicilian pond turtle. Who acts: fauna, 4,777 ende
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# Italy, sentence 245

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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 fauna of Italy includes 4,777 endemic animal species, which include the Sardinian long-eared bat, Sardinian red deer, spectacled salamander, brown cave salamander, Italian newt, Italian frog, Apennine yellow-bellied toad, Italian wall lizard, and Sicilian pond turtle.

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**Who acts:** fauna, 4,777 endemic animal species, Sardinian, Apennine · **What happens:** include, bat, belly, toad · **To what, where:** 4,777 endemic animal species

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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 (fauna, 4,777 endemic animal species, Sardinian, Apennine), 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:245
# text = The fauna of Italy includes 4,777 endemic animal species, which include the Sardinian long-eared bat, Sardinian red deer, spectacled salamander, brown cave salamander, Italian newt, Italian frog, Apennine yellow-bellied toad, Italian wall lizard, and Sicilian pond turtle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fauna	fauna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	includes	include	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	4,777	4,777	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	endemic	endemic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	include	include	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
14	Sardinian	Sardinian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	eared	eared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	Sardinian	Sardinian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	spectacled	spectacled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	salamander	salamander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	salamander	salamander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	newt	newt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	Apennine	Apennine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
38	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	bellied	belly	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	_
41	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	lizard	lizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	Sicilian	Sicilian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | present | the fauna of Italy | 4,777 endemic animal species and Sicilian pond turtle |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent species=Theme |
| 2 | **include** | present | 4,777 endemic animal species and Sicilian pond turtle |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bat** |  | Sardinian |  |  |  |  | Sardinian red deer *conj*; brown cave salamander *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 4 | **belly** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **toad** |  | Apennine |  |  |  |  | Italian wall lizard *conj* | 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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