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title: Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, and Malta were added to Italy by Diocleti… — Italy · tree and pragmatics
description: Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, and Malta were added to Italy by Diocletian in 292 AD, which made late-ancient Italy coterminous with the modern Italian geographical region. Who acts: Diocletian, 292 AD. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Italy» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Italy, sentence 36

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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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Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, and Malta were added to Italy by Diocletian in 292 AD, which made late-ancient Italy coterminous with the modern Italian geographical region.

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**Who acts:** Diocletian, 292 AD · **What happens:** add, make · **To what, where:** Malta, Italy, 292 AD, ancient Italy, Sardinia

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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 (Diocletian, 292 AD), 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:36
# text = Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, and Malta were added to Italy by Diocletian in 292 AD, which made late-ancient Italy coterminous with the modern Italian geographical region.
1	Sardinia	Sardinia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Corsica	Corsica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Sicily	Sicily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	Malta	Malta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Diocletian	Diocletian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	292	292	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	coterminous	coterminous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	geographical	geographical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past · passive | Diocletian | Malta | Italy | 292 AD |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to italy=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past | 292 AD | ancient Italy |  |  |  | coterminous, late *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset italy=Product |

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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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