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title: The population decline coincided with the general collapse of urban… — Rome · tree and pragmatics
description: The population decline coincided with the general collapse of urban life in the West in the fifth and sixth centuries, with few exceptions. Who acts: urban life. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rome» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rome, sentence 121

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From Wikipedia, [«Rome»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome), 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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The population decline coincided with the general collapse of urban life in the West in the fifth and sixth centuries, with few exceptions.

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**Who acts:** urban life · **What happens:** coincide, collapse · **To what, where:** population decline

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Rome». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (urban life), 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:Rome:121
# text = The population decline coincided with the general collapse of urban life in the West in the fifth and sixth centuries, with few exceptions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	decline	decline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	coincided	coincide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	collapse	collapse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	urban	urban	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	exceptions	exception	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **coincide** | participle |  | the population decline and few exceptions *not said here* |  |  | century | with the general collapse of urban life in the West | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with collapse=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **collapse** |  | urban life in the West |  |  |  |  |  | nom collapse «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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, «Rome», 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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