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title: Saint Lucy's Day, on 13 December, is popular among children in some… — Italy · tree and pragmatics
description: Saint Lucy's Day, on 13 December, is popular among children in some Italian regions, where she plays a role similar to Santa Claus. Who acts: Day, ceremony. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Italy» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Italy, sentence 698

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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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Saint Lucy's Day, on 13 December, is popular among children in some Italian regions, where she plays a role similar to Santa Claus.

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**Who acts:** Day, ceremony · **What happens:** be, play · **To what, where:** role

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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 (Day, ceremony), 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:698
# text = Saint Lucy's Day, on 13 December, is popular among children in some Italian regions, where she plays a role similar to Santa Claus.
1	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
8	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	among	among	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
16	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Santa	Santa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Saint Lucy's Day |  |  |  |  | among children in some Italian regions; popular *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | present | ceremony | a role |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent role=Theme |

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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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