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title: There is no formal defence treaty with Italy, as Vatican City is a n… — Vatican City · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no formal defence treaty with Italy, as Vatican City is a neutral state. Who acts: formal defence treaty, Vatican City. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vatican City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vatican City, sentence 175

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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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There is no formal defence treaty with Italy, as Vatican City is a neutral state.

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**Who acts:** formal defence treaty, Vatican City · **What happens:** be

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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 (formal defence treaty, Vatican City), 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:175
# text = There is no formal defence treaty with Italy, as Vatican City is a neutral state.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
4	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	treaty	treaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	Vatican	Vatican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	neutral	neutral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | no formal defence treaty with Italy and a neutral state |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Vatican City |  |  |  |  | as a neutral state | 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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