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title: Renaissance theatre marked the beginning of modern theatre. — Italy · tree and pragmatics
description: Renaissance theatre marked the beginning of modern theatre. Who acts: Renaissance theatre. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Italy» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Italy, sentence 603

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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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Renaissance theatre marked the beginning of modern theatre.

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**Who acts:** Renaissance theatre · **What happens:** mark, begin · **To what, where:** beginning, modern theatre

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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 (Renaissance theatre), 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:603
# text = Renaissance theatre marked the beginning of modern theatre.
1	Renaissance	Renaissance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | past | Renaissance theatre | the beginning of modern theatre |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent beginning=Destination |
| 2 | **begin** |  |  | modern theatre |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event 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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