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title: The invasion of another Germanic tribe in the 6th century, the Lomba… — Italy · tree and pragmatics
description: The invasion of another Germanic tribe in the 6th century, the Lombards, reduced Byzantine presence and ended the political unity of the peninsula. Who acts: Lombards. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Italy» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Italy, sentence 70

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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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The invasion of another Germanic tribe in the 6th century, the Lombards, reduced Byzantine presence and ended the political unity of the peninsula.

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**Who acts:** Lombards · **What happens:** reduce, end, invade · **To what, where:** Byzantine presence, political unity, invasion, Germanic tribe

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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 (Lombards), 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:70
# text = The invasion of another Germanic tribe in the 6th century, the Lombards, reduced Byzantine presence and ended the political unity of the peninsula.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	Germanic	germanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	6th	6th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Lombards	Lombard	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	reduced	reduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	Byzantine	byzantine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	political	political	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	unity	unity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reduce** | participle | the Lombards *not said here* | Byzantine presence |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer presence=Patient |
| 2 | **end** | past | the Lombards *not said here* | the political unity of the peninsula |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality unity=Eventuality |
| 4 | **invade** |  |  | another Germanic tribe in the 6th century |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «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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