Rome, sentence 60
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.
In 509 BC, the Romans expelled the last king from their city and established an oligarchic republic led by two annually elected consuls.
Who acts: Romans · What happens: expel, establish, lead, elect · To what, where: last king, 509, oligarchic republic
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 (Romans), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 509 | case |
| 2 | 509 | 509 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 expelled | obl |
| 3 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 509 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 509 | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Romans | det |
| 6 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 expelled | nsubj |
| 7 | expelled | expel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 king | amod |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 expelled | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 city | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 city | nmod:poss |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 expelled | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 established | cc |
| 15 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 expelled | conj |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 republic | det |
| 17 | oligarchic | oligarchic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 republic | amod |
| 18 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 established | obj |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 republic | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 consuls | case |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 consuls | nummod |
| 22 | annually | annually | ADV | _ | 23 elected | advmod |
| 23 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 consuls | amod |
| 24 | consuls | consul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 led | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 expelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expel | past | the Romans | the last king | 509 BC | from Romans's city | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent king=Theme from city=Source | ||
| 2 | establish | past | the Romans not said here | a oligarchic republic | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republic=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lead | participle | a oligarchic republic not said here | by two elected consuls | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by consul=Destination | ||||
| 4 | elect | participle | annually property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.
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