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title: The Vatican City State is not a member of the International Criminal… — Vatican City · tree and pragmatics
description: The Vatican City State is not a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Who acts: Vatican City State. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vatican City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vatican City, sentence 230

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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 Vatican City State is not a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

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**Who acts:** Vatican City State · **What happens:** not be · **To what, where:** member

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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 City State), 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:230
# text = The Vatican City State is not a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Vatican	Vatican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	State	State	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	International	International	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Criminal	Criminal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	ICC	icc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | the Vatican City State | a member |  |  |  | of the International Criminal Court | 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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