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title: In this role they are the forces most visible to tourists and are kn… — San Marino · tree and pragmatics
description: In this role they are the forces most visible to tourists and are known for their colourful ceremony of Changing the Guard. Who acts: borders, colourful ceremony. A sentence of Wikipedia's «San Marino» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# San Marino, sentence 127

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From Wikipedia, [«San Marino»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino), 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 this role they are the forces most visible to tourists and are known for their colourful ceremony of Changing the Guard.

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**Who acts:** borders, colourful ceremony · **What happens:** be, know, change · **To what, where:** forces, role, Guard

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «San Marino». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (borders, colourful 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:San_Marino:127
# text = In this role they are the forces most visible to tourists and are known for their colourful ceremony of Changing the Guard.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	role	role	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	tourists	tourist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	colourful	colourful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	Changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Guard	Guard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | borders *= border* | the forces |  | this role |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present · passive | borders *= border* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for borders's colourful ceremony | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **change** | gerund | borders's colourful ceremony *not said here* | the Guard |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=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, «San Marino», 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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