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title: The region was subsequently divided between the Kingdom of Sicily an… — Italy · tree and pragmatics
description: The region was subsequently divided between the Kingdom of Sicily and Kingdom of Naples. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Italy» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Italy, sentence 89

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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 region was subsequently divided between the Kingdom of Sicily and Kingdom of Naples.

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**What happens:** divide · **To what, where:** region

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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: 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:89
# text = The region was subsequently divided between the Kingdom of Sicily and Kingdom of Naples.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Sicily	Sicily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Naples	Naples	PROPN	NNP	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | past · passive |  | the region |  |  |  | between the Kingdom of Sicily and Kingdom of Naples; subsequently *property* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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