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title: St Peter's Square is also partially encircled by the Ricciolo d'Ital… — Vatican City · tree and pragmatics
description: St Peter's Square is also partially encircled by the Ricciolo d'Italia, a small strip of Italian territory. Who acts: Ricciolo d'Italia. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vatican City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vatican City, sentence 96

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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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St Peter's Square is also partially encircled by the Ricciolo d'Italia, a small strip of Italian territory.

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**Who acts:** Ricciolo d'Italia · **What happens:** encircle · **To what, where:** St Peter

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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 (Ricciolo d'Italia), 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:96
# text = St Peter's Square is also partially encircled by the Ricciolo d'Italia, a small strip of Italian territory.
1	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Square	Square	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	partially	partially	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	encircled	encircle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Ricciolo	Ricciolo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	d'Italia	d'italia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encircle** | present · passive | the Ricciolo d'Italia | St Peter |  |  |  | partially *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |

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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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