Jordan, sentence 80
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.
In 324 AD, the Roman Empire split and the Eastern Roman Empire, later known as the Byzantine Empire, continued to control or influence the region until 636.
Who acts: Roman Empire · What happens: split, know, continue, control, influence · To what, where: 324 AD, region
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 Empire), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 AD | case |
| 2 | 324 | 324 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 AD | nummod |
| 3 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 split | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 AD | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Empire | det |
| 6 | Roman | Roman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Empire | compound |
| 7 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 split | nsubj |
| 8 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Empire | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Empire | det |
| 11 | Eastern | Eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Empire | amod |
| 12 | Roman | Roman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Empire | compound |
| 13 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 split | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 known | punct |
| 15 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 known | advmod |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 split | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 Empire | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Empire | det |
| 19 | Byzantine | Byzantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Empire | compound |
| 20 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 known | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 continued | punct |
| 22 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 split | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 control | mark |
| 24 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 continued | xcomp |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 influence | cc |
| 26 | influence | influence | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 control | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 region | det |
| 28 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 influence | obj |
| 29 | until | until | ADP | _ | 30 636 | case |
| 30 | 636 | 636 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 influence | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 split | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | split | past | the Roman Empire | 324 AD | the Eastern Roman Empire conj | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | know | participle | the Roman Empire not said here | as the Byzantine Empire; late property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as empire=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | continue | past | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | control | to-infinitive | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | influence | infinitive | the region | until 636 | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=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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