Rome, sentence 208
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.
Soon after World War I in late 1922 Rome witnessed the rise of Italian Fascism led by Benito Mussolini, who led a march on the city.
Who acts: I, Benito, Italian Fascism · What happens: witness, lead, rise · To what, where: rise, late 1922, march, 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 (I, Benito, Italian Fascism), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 witnessed | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 War | case |
| 3 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 War | compound |
| 4 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 witnessed | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 witnessed | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1922 | case |
| 7 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 1922 | amod |
| 8 | 1922 | 1922 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 witnessed | obl |
| 9 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 witnessed | nsubj |
| 10 | witnessed | witness | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rise | det |
| 12 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 witnessed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Fascism | case |
| 14 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Fascism | amod |
| 15 | Fascism | Fascism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 rise | nmod |
| 16 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 rise | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Benito | case |
| 18 | Benito | Benito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 led | obl:agent |
| 19 | Mussolini | Mussolini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Benito | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 led | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 led | nsubj |
| 22 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Benito | acl:relcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 march | det |
| 24 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 led | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 city | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 city | det |
| 27 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 led | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 witnessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | witness | past | I | the rise of Italian Fascism | late 1922 | after World War | Rome nsubj; soon property | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rise=Beneficiary | |
| 2 | lead | participle | the rise of Italian Fascism not said here | Benito obl:agent | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | Benito | a march | the city | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent march=Theme on city=Destination | |||
| 4 | rise | Italian Fascism | nom rise «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Rome», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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