--- title: Vatican itself is derived from the name of an Etruscan settlement, V… — Vatican City · tree and pragmatics description: Vatican itself is derived from the name of an Etruscan settlement, Vatica or Vaticum, located in the general area the Romans called Ager Vaticanus ('Vatican territory'). Who acts: Romans. 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Vatican itself is derived from the name of an Etruscan settlement, Vatica or Vaticum, located in the general area the Romans called Ager Vaticanus ('Vatican territory'). **Who acts:** Romans · **What happens:** derive, locate, call, name · **To what, where:** Vatican, name, general area, Etruscan settlement · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Romans), 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:17 # text = Vatican itself is derived from the name of an Etruscan settlement, Vatica or Vaticum, located in the general area the Romans called Ager Vaticanus ('Vatican territory'). 1 Vatican vatican NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 1 nmod:unmarked _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 derived derive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Etruscan etruscan ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 settlement settlement NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Vatica Vatica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 Vaticum Vaticum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 located locate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Romans Roman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 Ager Ager PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 xcomp _ _ 26 Vaticanus Vaticanus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 flat _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Vatican vatican ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 territory territory NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **derive** | present · passive | | Vatican Treaty | | the name of a Etruscan settlement | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from name=Material | | 2 | **locate** | participle | | | | the general area | | | tree rules | | 3 | **call** | past | the Romans | the general area *not said here* | | | | Ager *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent area=Recipient | | 4 | **name** | | | a Etruscan settlement | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vatican_City/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vatican_City/18/) - ↑ back to [Vatican City](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vatican_City/)