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title: In 1752, Luigi Vanvitelli began the construction of the Royal Palace… — Italy · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1752, Luigi Vanvitelli began the construction of the Royal Palace of Caserta. Who acts: Luigi. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Italy» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Italy, sentence 535

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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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In 1752, Luigi Vanvitelli began the construction of the Royal Palace of Caserta.

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**Who acts:** Luigi · **What happens:** begin, construct · **To what, where:** construction, 1752, Royal Palace

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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 (Luigi), 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:535
# text = In 1752, Luigi Vanvitelli began the construction of the Royal Palace of Caserta.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1752	1752	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Luigi	Luigi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Vanvitelli	Vanvitelli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Royal	Royal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Caserta	Caserta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Luigi | the construction of the Royal Palace of Caserta |  | 1752 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent construction=Eventuality |
| 2 | **construct** |  |  | the Royal Palace of Caserta |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act transitive»: of=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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