Jerusalem, sentence 78
From Wikipedia, «Jerusalem», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
After the Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE, Cyrus the Great allowed the Jews to return from exile and rebuild the city and its temple, whose construction began c. 516 BCE, marking the start of the Second Temple period.
Who acts: Cyrus, Jews, construction · What happens: allow, return, rebuild, begin, mark, start · To what, where: Jews, exile, city, c., start, Temple period
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Jerusalem». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cyrus, Jews, construction), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 conquest | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 conquest | det |
| 3 | Persian | Persian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 conquest | compound |
| 4 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 allowed | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Babylon | case |
| 6 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 conquest | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 539 | case |
| 8 | 539 | 539 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 conquest | nmod |
| 9 | BCE | BCE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 539 | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 conquest | punct |
| 11 | Cyrus | Cyrus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 allowed | nsubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Great | det |
| 13 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Cyrus | flat |
| 14 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Jews | det |
| 16 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 allowed | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 return | mark |
| 18 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 allowed | xcomp |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 exile | case |
| 20 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 return | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rebuild | cc |
| 22 | rebuild | rebuild | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 return | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 city | det |
| 24 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rebuild | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 temple | cc |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 temple | nmod:poss |
| 27 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 city | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 began | punct |
| 29 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 30 construction | nmod:poss |
| 30 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 began | nsubj |
| 31 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 temple | acl:relcl |
| 32 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 began | obj |
| 33 | 516 | 516 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 c. | list |
| 34 | BCE | BCE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 516 | nmod:unmarked |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 marking | punct |
| 36 | marking | mark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 began | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 start | det |
| 38 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 marking | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 period | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 period | det |
| 41 | Second | Second | PROPN | _ | 42 Temple | compound |
| 42 | Temple | Temple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 period | compound |
| 43 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 start | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past | Cyrus | the Jews | after the Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer jew=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Jews not said here | exile | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from exile=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | rebuild | infinitive | the Jews not said here | the city and exile's temple | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Result | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | construction | c. | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent c.=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | mark | gerund | construction not said here | the start of the Temple period | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent start=Destination | ||||
| 6 | start | the Temple period | nom start «event transitive»: of=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.
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