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After the United States entered into the war, US officials were against bombing the Vatican City, fearful of offending Catholic members of the American military, but said that "they could not stop the British from bombing Rome if the British so decided". **Who acts:** United States, US officials, officials · **What happens:** enter, bomb, offend, say, not stop · **To what, where:** war, Vatican City, Catholic members, British, Rome · **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 (United States, US officials, officials), 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:67 # text = After the United States entered into the war, US officials were against bombing the Vatican City, fearful of offending Catholic members of the American military, but said that "they could not stop the British from bombing Rome if the British so decided". 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 United United ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 States State PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 officials official NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 against against SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 bombing bomb VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Vatican Vatican PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 fearful fearful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 20 of of SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 offending offend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 22 Catholic catholic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 members member NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 military military NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 obj _ _ 39 from from SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 bombing bomb VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ _ 41 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 42 if if SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 obl _ _ 45 so so ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 decided decided NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | past | the United States | | | the war | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into war=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **bomb** | past · progressive | US officials | the Vatican City | | | | | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient | | 3 | **offend** | gerund | US officials *not said here* | Catholic members of the American military | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus member=Experiencer | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **stop** *in a quote* | could | officials *= official* | the British | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality british=Eventuality | | 6 | **bomb** *in a quote* | gerund | officials *= official* *not said here* | Rome | | | | the British decided *obl* | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rome=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 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vatican_City/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vatican_City/68/) - ↑ back to [Vatican City](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vatican_City/)