Rome, sentence 162
From Wikipedia, «Rome», 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.
Back in power for a short time, Cola was soon lynched by the populace, and Albornoz took possession of the city.
Who acts: populace, Albornoz · What happens: lynch, take, possess · To what, where: power, possession, city
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Rome». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (populace, Albornoz), 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 | Back | back | ADV | _ | 3 power | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 power | case |
| 3 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lynched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 power | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 power | punct |
| 9 | Cola | Cola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lynched | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lynched | aux:pass |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 lynched | advmod |
| 12 | lynched | lynch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 populace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 populace | det |
| 15 | populace | populace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lynched | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 18 | Albornoz | Albornoz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lynched | conj |
| 20 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 city | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 city | det |
| 23 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 possession | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lynched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lynch | past · passive | the populace | power for a short time | Cola nsubj; soon property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | take | past | Albornoz | possession of the city | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | ||||
| 3 | possess | the city | nom possession «act 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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