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title: San Marino and Italy have engaged in conventions since 1862, dictati… — San Marino · tree and pragmatics
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# San Marino, sentence 161

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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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San Marino and Italy have engaged in conventions since 1862, dictating some economic activities in San Marino's territory.

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**What happens:** engage, dictate · **To what, where:** San, conventions, economic activities, territory

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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:161
# text = San Marino and Italy have engaged in conventions since 1862, dictating some economic activities in San Marino's territory.
1	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Marino	Marino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	conventions	convention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	since	since	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1862	1862	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	dictating	dictate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	activities	activity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Marino	Marino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
20	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **engage** | present · perfect · passive |  | San and Italy |  |  | since 1862 | in conventions *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in convention=Goal |
| 2 | **dictate** *speech: other* | gerund |  | some economic activities |  | San's territory |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent activity=Topic |

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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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