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title: Ionians, Doric colonists, Syracusans, and the Achaeans founded vario… — Italy · tree and pragmatics
description: Ionians, Doric colonists, Syracusans, and the Achaeans founded various cities. Who acts: Ionians. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Italy» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Italy, sentence 50

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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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Ionians, Doric colonists, Syracusans, and the Achaeans founded various cities.

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**Who acts:** Ionians · **What happens:** found · **To what, where:** various cities

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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 (Ionians), 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:50
# text = Ionians, Doric colonists, Syracusans, and the Achaeans founded various cities.
1	Ionians	Ionian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	Doric	doric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	colonists	colonist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Syracusans	Syracusan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Achaeans	Achaean	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past | Ionians and Doric colonists and Syracusans | various cities |  |  |  | the Achaeans *nsubj* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient |

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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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