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title: Due to its striking blue, white, and gold uniform, it is perhaps the… — San Marino · tree and pragmatics
description: Due to its striking blue, white, and gold uniform, it is perhaps the best-known part of the Sammarinese military, and appears on countless postcard views of the republic. Who acts: unit. A sentence of Wikipedia's «San Marino» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# San Marino, sentence 131

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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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Due to its striking blue, white, and gold uniform, it is perhaps the best-known part of the Sammarinese military, and appears on countless postcard views of the republic.

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**Who acts:** unit · **What happens:** strike, know, be, appear, view · **To what, where:** known part, countless postcard views, republic

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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 (unit), 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:131
# text = Due to its striking blue, white, and gold uniform, it is perhaps the best-known part of the Sammarinese military, and appears on countless postcard views of the republic.
1	Due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
4	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	uniform	uniform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Sammarinese	sammarinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	countless	countless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	postcard	postcard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **strike** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | present | unit | the known part |  |  |  | due unit's blue gold uniform; of the Sammarinese military; perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **appear** | present | unit *not said here* |  |  | countless postcard views of the republic |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on view=Location |
| 5 | **view** |  |  | the republic |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition 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, «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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