Rome, sentence 98
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.
He funded the building of several churches and allowed clergy to act as arbitrators in civil suits (a measure that did not outlast him but which was restored in part much later).
Who acts: Constantine, measure · What happens: fund, allow, act, not outlast, restore · To what, where: building, civil suits, Constantine, part
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 (Constantine, measure), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 funded | nsubj |
| 2 | funded | fund | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 building | det |
| 4 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 funded | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 churches | case |
| 6 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 churches | amod |
| 7 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 building | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 clergy | cc |
| 9 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 clergy | amod |
| 10 | clergy | clergy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 building | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 act | mark |
| 12 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 funded | advcl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 arbitrators | case |
| 14 | arbitrators | arbitrator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 act | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 suits | case |
| 16 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 suits | amod |
| 17 | suits | suit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 act | obl |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 measure | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 measure | det |
| 20 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 suits | appos |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 outlast | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 outlast | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 outlast | advmod |
| 24 | outlast | outlast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 measure | acl:relcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 outlast | obj |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 restored | cc |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 restored | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 restored | aux:pass |
| 29 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 outlast | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 part | case |
| 31 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 restored | obl |
| 32 | much | much | ADV | _ | 33 later | advmod |
| 33 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 restored | advmod |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 measure | punct |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 funded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fund | past | Constantine | the building of several churches and allowed clergy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | allow | participle | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 3 | act | to-infinitive | Constantine not said here | civil suits | as arbitrators | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as arbitrator=Attribute | |||
| 4 | not outlast | past · do-support | a measure | Constantine | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | restore | past · passive | part | which nsubj:pass; late property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
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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