Romania, sentence 37

From Wikipedia, «Romania», 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.

He resisted the Romans for decades, but the Roman army defeated his troops in 106 AD.

Who acts: Dacia, Roman army · What happens: resist, defeat · To what, where: Romans, troops, 106

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Romania». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dacia, Roman army), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 resisted	nsubj
2	resisted	resist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Romans	det
4	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 resisted	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 decades	case
6	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 resisted	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 defeated	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 defeated	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 army	det
10	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 army	amod
11	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 defeated	nsubj
12	defeated	defeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 resisted	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 troops	nmod:poss
14	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	12 defeated	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 106	case
16	106	106	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 defeated	obl
17	AD	ad	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 106	nmod:unmarked
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 resisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resist	past	Dacia	the Romans			decade		tree rules
2	defeat	past	the Roman army	Dacia's troops		106 AD			tree rules

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Romania, sentence 37