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title: The term "Holy See" refers not to the Vatican state but to the pope'… — Vatican City · tree and pragmatics
description: The term "Holy See" refers not to the Vatican state but to the pope's spiritual and pastoral governance, largely exercised through the Roman Curia. Who acts: term. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vatican City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vatican City, sentence 147

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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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The term "Holy See" refers not to the Vatican state but to the pope's spiritual and pastoral governance, largely exercised through the Roman Curia.

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**Who acts:** term · **What happens:** not refer, exercise · **To what, where:** Roman Curia

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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 (term), 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:147
# text = The term "Holy See" refers not to the Vatican state but to the pope's spiritual and pastoral governance, largely exercised through the Roman Curia.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	5	compound	_	_
5	See	See	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	refers	refer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Vatican	vatican	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pope	pope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	pastoral	pastoral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	governance	governance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	exercised	exercise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Curia	Curia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **refer** | present | the term |  |  |  |  | to the Vatican state but the pope's spiritual governance | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to state=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **exercise** | participle | the term *not said here* |  |  | the Roman Curia |  | largely *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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