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title: Romans invaded the Iberian Peninsula in 218 BC and expelled the Cart… — Portugal · tree and pragmatics
description: Romans invaded the Iberian Peninsula in 218 BC and expelled the Carthaginians after the Battle of Ilipa in 206 BC. Who acts: Romans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Portugal» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Portugal, sentence 32

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From Wikipedia, [«Portugal»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal), 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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Romans invaded the Iberian Peninsula in 218 BC and expelled the Carthaginians after the Battle of Ilipa in 206 BC.

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**Who acts:** Romans · **What happens:** invade, expel · **To what, where:** Iberian Peninsula, 218, Carthaginians, 206

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Portugal». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Romans), 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:Portugal:32
# text = Romans invaded the Iberian Peninsula in 218 BC and expelled the Carthaginians after the Battle of Ilipa in 206 BC.
1	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	invaded	invade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Iberian	Iberian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	218	218	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
8	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	expelled	expel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Carthaginians	Carthaginian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Ilipa	Ilipa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	206	206	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
20	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invade** | past | Romans | the Iberian Peninsula |  | 218  BC |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **expel** | past | Romans *not said here* | the Carthaginians |  | 206  BC | after the Battle of Ilipa |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carthaginian=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, «Portugal», 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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