--- title: The president is the Italian sister Raffaella Petrini, who was appoi… — Vatican City · tree and pragmatics description: The president is the Italian sister Raffaella Petrini, who was appointed by Pope Francis on 1 March 2025, and was reconfirmed by Pope Leo XIV on 9 May 2025. Who acts: president, Pope. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vatican City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vatican_City/152/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [wikipedia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/) / [en](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/) / [Vatican City](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vatican_City/) / 152 # Vatican City, sentence 152 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. The president is the Italian sister Raffaella Petrini, who was appointed by Pope Francis on 1 March 2025, and was reconfirmed by Pope Leo XIV on 9 May 2025. **Who acts:** president, Pope · **What happens:** be, appoint, reconfirm · **To what, where:** Italian sister, Leo XIV, 9 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 (president, Pope), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:152 # text = The president is the Italian sister Raffaella Petrini, who was appointed by Pope Francis on 1 March 2025, and was reconfirmed by Pope Leo XIV on 9 May 2025. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Italian Italian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 Raffaella Raffaella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 8 Petrini Petrini PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 appointed appoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Pope Pope PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 Francis Francis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 reconfirmed reconfirm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Pope Pope PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 Leo Leo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 XIV xiv NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 30 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod:unmarked _ _ 31 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the president | the Italian sister | | | | Raffaella *appos* | tree rules | | 2 | **appoint** | past · passive | Pope | the Italian sister | | | march | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 3 | **reconfirm** | past · passive | Pope | Leo XIV | | 9 2025 May | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vatican_City/151/) - next →: [sentence 153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vatican_City/153/) - ↑ back to [Vatican City](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vatican_City/)