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title: Roman legions under Pompey conquered much of the Levant in 63 BC, in… — Jordan · tree and pragmatics
description: Roman legions under Pompey conquered much of the Levant in 63 BC, inaugurating a period of Roman rule that lasted four centuries. Who acts: Roman legions, Roman rule. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jordan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jordan, sentence 76

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From Wikipedia, [«Jordan»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan), 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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Roman legions under Pompey conquered much of the Levant in 63 BC, inaugurating a period of Roman rule that lasted four centuries.

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**Who acts:** Roman legions, Roman rule · **What happens:** conquer, inaugurate, last · **To what, where:** much, 63, period

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Jordan». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roman legions, Roman rule), 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:Jordan:76
# text = Roman legions under Pompey conquered much of the Levant in 63 BC, inaugurating a period of Roman rule that lasted four centuries.
1	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	legions	legion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Pompey	Pompey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Levant	Levant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	63	63	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
12	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	inaugurating	inaugurate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** | past | Roman legions under Pompey | much of the Levant |  | 63  BC |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
| 2 | **inaugurate** | gerund | Roman legions under Pompey *not said here* | a period of Roman rule |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **last** | past | Roman rule |  |  |  | century |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

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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, «Jordan», 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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