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title: In 324 AD, the Roman Empire split and the Eastern Roman Empire, late… — Jordan · tree and pragmatics
description: In 324 AD, the Roman Empire split and the Eastern Roman Empire, later known as the Byzantine Empire, continued to control or influence the region until 636. Who acts: Roman Empire. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jordan» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jordan, sentence 80

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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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In 324 AD, the Roman Empire split and the Eastern Roman Empire, later known as the Byzantine Empire, continued to control or influence the region until 636.

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**Who acts:** Roman Empire · **What happens:** split, know, continue, control, influence · **To what, where:** 324 AD, region

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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 Empire), 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:80
# text = In 324 AD, the Roman Empire split and the Eastern Roman Empire, later known as the Byzantine Empire, continued to control or influence the region until 636.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	324	324	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Roman	Roman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Eastern	Eastern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Roman	Roman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Byzantine	Byzantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	control	control	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	influence	influence	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	until	until	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	636	636	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split** | past | the Roman Empire |  |  | 324 AD |  | the Eastern Roman Empire *conj* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | participle | the Roman Empire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the Byzantine Empire; late *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as empire=Attribute |
| 3 | **continue** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **control** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **influence** | infinitive |  | the region |  |  | until 636 |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=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, «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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