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title: The Greeks came to apply "Italia" to a larger region. — Italy · tree and pragmatics
description: The Greeks came to apply "Italia" to a larger region. Who acts: Greeks. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Italy» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Italy, sentence 29

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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 Greeks came to apply "Italia" to a larger region.

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**Who acts:** Greeks · **What happens:** come, apply · **To what, where:** Italia

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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 (Greeks), 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:29
# text = The Greeks came to apply "Italia" to a larger region.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	apply	apply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Italia	Italia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Greeks |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **apply** | to-infinitive | the Greeks *not said here* | Italia |  |  |  | to a larger region | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent italia=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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