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title: During the 5th century, the last de jure Western Roman Emperor Juliu… — Croatia · tree and pragmatics
description: During the 5th century, the last de jure Western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos ruled a small realm from the palace after fleeing Italy in 475. Who acts: Nepos. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Croatia» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Croatia, sentence 45

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From Wikipedia, [«Croatia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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During the 5th century, the last de jure Western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos ruled a small realm from the palace after fleeing Italy in 475.

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**Who acts:** Nepos · **What happens:** rule, flee · **To what, where:** small realm, palace, Italy, 475

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Croatia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nepos), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Croatia:45
# text = During the 5th century, the last de jure Western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos ruled a small realm from the palace after fleeing Italy in 475.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	5th	5th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	flat:foreign	_	_
9	jure	jure	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Julius	Julius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	Nepos	Nepos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	fleeing	flee	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
24	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	475	475	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past | Nepos | a small realm |  | the palace |  | jure Emperor Julius | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent realm=Theme |
| 2 | **flee** | gerund | Nepos *not said here* | Italy |  | 475 |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme italy=Initial\_Location |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Croatia», 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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