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title: Back in power for a short time, Cola was soon lynched by the populac… — Rome · tree and pragmatics
description: Back in power for a short time, Cola was soon lynched by the populace, and Albornoz took possession of the city. Who acts: populace, Albornoz. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rome» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rome, sentence 162

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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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Back in power for a short time, Cola was soon lynched by the populace, and Albornoz took possession of the city.

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**Who acts:** populace, Albornoz · **What happens:** lynch, take, possess · **To what, where:** power, possession, city

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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 (populace, Albornoz), 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:162
# text = Back in power for a short time, Cola was soon lynched by the populace, and Albornoz took possession of the city.
1	Back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	Cola	Cola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	lynched	lynch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	populace	populace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Albornoz	Albornoz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lynch** | past · passive | the populace | power for a short time |  |  |  | Cola *nsubj*; soon *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past | Albornoz | possession of the city |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
| 3 | **possess** |  |  | the city |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act 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, «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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