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title: The functions of the Guard of the council are to protect the captain… — San Marino · tree and pragmatics
description: The functions of the Guard of the council are to protect the captains regent, and to defend the Grand and General Council during its formal sessions. Who acts: functions. A sentence of Wikipedia's «San Marino» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# San Marino, sentence 132

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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 functions of the Guard of the council are to protect the captains regent, and to defend the Grand and General Council during its formal sessions.

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**Who acts:** functions · **What happens:** be, defend · **To what, where:** Grand

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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 (functions), 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:132
# text = The functions of the Guard of the council are to protect the captains regent, and to defend the Grand and General Council during its formal sessions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	functions	function	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Guard	Guard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	compound	_	_
14	regent	regent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Grand	Grand	PROPN	NNP	_	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	during	during	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	sessions	session	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the functions of the Guard of the council |  |  |  |  | the captains regent *obj*; protect *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **defend** | to-infinitive | the functions of the Guard of the council *not said here* |  | the Grand and Council  General |  | during unit's formal sessions |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grand=Beneficiary |

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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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