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The military history of Italy chronicles a vast time period, lasting from the military conflicts fought by the ancient peoples of Italy, most notably the conquest of the Mediterranean world by the ancient Romans, through the expansion of the Italian city-states and maritime republics during the medieval period and the involvement of the historical Italian states in the Italian Wars and the wars of succession, to the Napoleonic period, the Italian unification, the campaigns of the colonial empire, the two world wars, and into the modern day, with world peacekeeping operations under the aegis of NATO, the EU or the UN. **Who acts:** military history, succession, colonial empire · **What happens:** chronicle, last, fight, expand, involve, war · **To what, where:** vast time period, conquest, military conflicts, Italian city states, historical Italian states 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 (military history, succession, colonial empire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:320 # text = The military history of Italy chronicles a vast time period, lasting from the military conflicts fought by the ancient peoples of Italy, most notably the conquest of the Mediterranean world by the ancient Romans, through the expansion of the Italian city-states and maritime republics during the medieval period and the involvement of the historical Italian states in the Italian Wars and the wars of succession, to the Napoleonic period, the Italian unification, the campaigns of the colonial empire, the two world wars, and into the modern day, with world peacekeeping operations under the aegis of NATO, the EU or the UN. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 military military ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Italy Italy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 chronicles chronicle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 vast vast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 period period NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 lasting last VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 military military ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 conflicts conflict NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 fought fight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Italy Italy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 26 advmod _ _ 26 notably notably ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 conquest conquest NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 Mediterranean Mediterranean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 Romans Roman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 through through ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 expansion expansion NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 43 Italian Italian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 44 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 45 - 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PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chronicle** | present | the military history of Italy | a vast time period | | | day | | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Theme | | 2 | **last** | gerund | the military history of Italy *not said here* | the conquest of the Mediterranean world by the ancient Romans | | the military conflicts | during the medieval period and the involvement of the historical Italian states in the Italian Wars to the Napoleonic period and the wars of succession | through the expansion of the Italian city states and maritime republics | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fight** | participle | | the military conflicts *not said here* | | | | by the ancient peoples of Italy | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **expand** | | | the Italian city states and maritime republics | | | | | nom expansion «act transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **involve** | | | the historical Italian states in the Italian Wars to the Napoleonic period and the wars of succession | | | | | nom involvement «act transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **war** | | succession | | | | | | nom war «act intransitive»: of=agent | | 7 | **campaign** | | the colonial empire and the two world wars | | | | | | nom campaign «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 319](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Italy/319/) - next →: [sentence 321](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Italy/321/) - ↑ back to [Italy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Italy/)