Rome, sentence 41
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Several excavations support the view that Rome grew from pastoral settlements on the Palatine Hill built above the area of the future Roman Forum.
Who acts: Several excavations, Rome, view · What happens: support, grow, build · To what, where: view, pastoral settlements, area
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 (Several excavations, Rome, view), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 excavations | amod |
| 2 | excavations | excavation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 support | nsubj |
| 3 | support | support | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 view | det |
| 5 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 built | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 grew | mark |
| 7 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 view | acl:relcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 settlements | case |
| 10 | pastoral | pastoral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 settlements | amod |
| 11 | settlements | settlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grew | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Hill | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Hill | det |
| 14 | Palatine | Palatine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Hill | compound |
| 15 | Hill | Hill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 settlements | nmod |
| 16 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 support | parataxis |
| 17 | above | above | ADP | _ | 19 area | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 area | det |
| 19 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 built | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Forum | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Forum | det |
| 22 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Forum | amod |
| 23 | Roman | Roman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Forum | compound |
| 24 | Forum | Forum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 area | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 support | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | support | present | Several excavations | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | Rome | the view not said here | pastoral settlements on the Palatine Hill | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent view=Product from settlement=Material | |||
| 3 | build | past | the view | the area of the future Roman Forum | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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