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title: Football in Vatican City is organized by the Vatican Amateur Sports… — Vatican City · tree and pragmatics
description: Football in Vatican City is organized by the Vatican Amateur Sports Association, which holds the national championship, called the Vatican City Championship, with eight teams, including, for example, the Swiss Guard's FC Guardia and police and museum guard teams. Who acts: Amateur Sports Association
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# Vatican City, sentence 357

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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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Football in Vatican City is organized by the Vatican Amateur Sports Association, which holds the national championship, called the Vatican City Championship, with eight teams, including, for example, the Swiss Guard's FC Guardia and police and museum guard teams.

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**Who acts:** Amateur Sports Association, national championship · **What happens:** organize, hold, call, include · **To what, where:** Football, national championship, City Championship · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Amateur Sports Association, national championship), 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:357
# text = Football in Vatican City is organized by the Vatican Amateur Sports Association, which holds the national championship, called the Vatican City Championship, with eight teams, including, for example, the Swiss Guard's FC Guardia and police and museum guard teams.
1	Football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Vatican	Vatican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	organized	organize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	Vatican	Vatican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Amateur	Amateur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	Sports	Sports	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Association	Association	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	championship	championship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Vatican	Vatican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Championship	championship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Swiss	Swiss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Guard	Guard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	FC	FC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
40	Guardia	Guardia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **organize** | present · passive | the Amateur Sports Association | Football in Vatican City |  |  |  | the Swiss Guard's FC for example and police and guard teams *parataxis* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |
| 2 | **hold** | present |  | the national championship |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; eight teams *obj* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent championship=Theme team=Eventuality |
| 3 | **call** | participle | the national championship *not said here* | the City Championship |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: 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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