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title: The Guard of the Grand and General Council commonly known as The Gua… — San Marino · tree and pragmatics
description: The Guard of the Grand and General Council commonly known as The Guard of the council or locally as the "Guard of Nobles", formed in 1741, is a volunteer unit with ceremonial duties. A sentence of Wikipedia's «San Marino» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# San Marino, sentence 130

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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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The Guard of the Grand and General Council commonly known as The Guard of the council or locally as the "Guard of Nobles", formed in 1741, is a volunteer unit with ceremonial duties.

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**What happens:** know, form, be · **To what, where:** Guard, 1741, volunteer unit

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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: 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:130
# text = The Guard of the Grand and General Council commonly known as The Guard of the council or locally as the "Guard of Nobles", formed in 1741, is a volunteer unit with ceremonial duties.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Guard	Guard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Grand	Grand	PROPN	NNP	_	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Guard	Guard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	locally	locally	ADV	RB	_	16	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Guard	Guard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Nobles	Nobles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	1741	1741	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	volunteer	volunteer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	unit	unit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	ceremonial	ceremonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle · passive |  | the Guard of the Grand and Council  General |  |  |  | as the Guard; of the council; as the Guard of Nobles; commonly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as guard=Attribute |
| 2 | **form** | participle |  | the Guard of Nobles *not said here* |  | 1741 |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1741=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | a volunteer unit |  |  |  | with ceremonial duties | tree rules |

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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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