Jordan, sentence 76
From Wikipedia, «Jordan», 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.
Roman legions under Pompey conquered much of the Levant in 63 BC, inaugurating a period of Roman rule that lasted four centuries.
Who acts: Roman legions, Roman rule · What happens: conquer, inaugurate, last · To what, where: much, 63, period
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Jordan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roman legions, Roman rule), 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 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 legions | amod |
| 2 | legions | legion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 conquered | nsubj |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 4 Pompey | case |
| 4 | Pompey | Pompey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 legions | nmod |
| 5 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 conquered | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Levant | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Levant | det |
| 9 | Levant | Levant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 much | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 63 | case |
| 11 | 63 | 63 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 conquered | obl |
| 12 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 63 | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 inaugurating | punct |
| 14 | inaugurating | inaugurate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 conquered | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 period | det |
| 16 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 inaugurating | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 rule | case |
| 18 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rule | amod |
| 19 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 period | nmod |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 lasted | nsubj |
| 21 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rule | acl:relcl |
| 22 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 centuries | nummod |
| 23 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lasted | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 conquered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | past | Roman legions under Pompey | much of the Levant | 63 BC | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | |||
| 2 | inaugurate | gerund | Roman legions under Pompey not said here | a period of Roman rule | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | last | past | Roman rule | century | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
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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