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title: Italy plays a major role in several economic, military, cultural, an… — Italy · tree and pragmatics
description: Italy plays a major role in several economic, military, cultural, and political affairs, and is one of the EU big three. Who acts: Italy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Italy» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Italy, sentence 274

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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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Italy plays a major role in several economic, military, cultural, and political affairs, and is one of the EU big three.

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**Who acts:** Italy · **What happens:** play, be · **To what, where:** major role, several economic, one

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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:274
# text = Italy plays a major role in several economic, military, cultural, and political affairs, and is one of the EU big three.
1	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	cultural	cultural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	EU	EU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | Italy | a major role |  | several economic |  | political affairs *obl* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | one |  |  |  | of the big three  EU | 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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