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title: Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (Stato della Città d… — Vatican City · tree and pragmatics
description: Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (Stato della Città del Vaticano; Status Civitatis Vaticanae), often shortened as the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state in Southern Europe. Who acts: Vatican. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vatican City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vatican City, sentence 1

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From Wikipedia, [«Vatican City»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City), 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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Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (Stato della Città del Vaticano; Status Civitatis Vaticanae), often shortened as the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state in Southern Europe.

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**Who acts:** Vatican · **What happens:** shorten, be · **To what, where:** Stato, landlocked sovereign city state, Southern Europe

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vatican City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vatican), 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:Vatican_City:1
# text = Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (Stato della Città del Vaticano; Status Civitatis Vaticanae), often shortened as the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state in Southern Europe.
1	Vatican	Vatican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
2	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	officially	officially	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Vatican	Vatican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Stato	Stato	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	della	della	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	Città	Città	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	del	Del	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
14	Vaticano	Vaticano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Status	Status	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Civitatis	Civitatis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
18	Vaticanae	Vaticanae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	shortened	shorten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Vatican	Vatican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
29	landlocked	landlocked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
30	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
31	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	Southern	Southern	PROPN	NNP	_	36	flat	_	_
36	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	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 | **shorten** | participle |  | Stato *not said here* |  |  |  | as the Vatican; often *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Vatican and the Vatican City State and Stato | a landlocked sovereign city state |  | Southern Europe |  |  | 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, «Vatican City», 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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