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title: After the Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE, Cyrus the Great al… — Jerusalem · tree and pragmatics
description: After the Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE, Cyrus the Great allowed the Jews to return from exile and rebuild the city and its temple, whose construction began c. 516 BCE, marking the start of the Second Temple period. Who acts: Cyrus, Jews, construction. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jerusalem» 
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# Jerusalem, sentence 78

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From Wikipedia, [«Jerusalem»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem), 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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After the Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE, Cyrus the Great allowed the Jews to return from exile and rebuild the city and its temple, whose construction began c. 516 BCE, marking the start of the Second Temple period.

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**Who acts:** Cyrus, Jews, construction · **What happens:** allow, return, rebuild, begin, mark, start · **To what, where:** Jews, exile, city, c., start, Temple period

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Jerusalem». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cyrus, Jews, construction), 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:Jerusalem:78
# text = After the Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE, Cyrus the Great allowed the Jews to return from exile and rebuild the city and its temple, whose construction began c. 516 BCE, marking the start of the Second Temple period.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	539	539	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
9	BCE	BCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	Cyrus	Cyrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
14	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	rebuild	rebuild	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	c.	c.	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	516	516	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	list	_	_
34	BCE	BCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	marking	mark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	Second	Second	PROPN	NNP	_	42	compound	_	_
42	Temple	Temple	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | past | Cyrus | the Jews |  |  | after the Persian conquest of Babylon in 539  BCE |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer jew=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **return** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Jews *not said here* |  |  | exile |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from exile=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **rebuild** | infinitive | the Jews *not said here* | the city and exile's temple |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Result |
| 4 | **begin** | past | construction | c. |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent c.=Eventuality |
| 5 | **mark** | gerund | construction *not said here* | the start of the Temple period |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent start=Destination |
| 6 | **start** |  |  | the Temple period |  |  |  |  | nom start «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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, «Jerusalem», 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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