Rome, sentence 203
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.
Italian troops were able to capture Rome entering the city through a breach near Porta Pia.
Who acts: Italian troops · What happens: be, capture, enter · To what, where: Rome, city, breach
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 (Italian troops), 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 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 troops | amod |
| 2 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 able | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 able | cop |
| 4 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 capture | mark |
| 6 | capture | capture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 able | xcomp |
| 7 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 capture | obj |
| 8 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 capture | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entering | obj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 breach | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 breach | det |
| 13 | breach | breach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entering | obl |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 Porta | case |
| 15 | Porta | Porta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 breach | nmod |
| 16 | Pia | Pia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Porta | flat |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Italian troops | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | capture | to-infinitive | Italian troops not said here | Rome | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rome=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enter | gerund | Italian troops not said here | the city | a breach near Porta | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Destination |
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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