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title: Rome became able to compete with other major European cities of the… — Rome · tree and pragmatics
description: Rome became able to compete with other major European cities of the time in terms of wealth, grandeur, the arts, learning and architecture. Who acts: Rome. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rome» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rome, sentence 174

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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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Rome became able to compete with other major European cities of the time in terms of wealth, grandeur, the arts, learning and architecture.

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**Who acts:** Rome · **What happens:** become, compete, term · **To what, where:** wealth

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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 (Rome), 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:174
# text = Rome became able to compete with other major European cities of the time in terms of wealth, grandeur, the arts, learning and architecture.
1	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	compete	compete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	grandeur	grandeur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	architecture	architecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Rome |  |  |  |  | able *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **compete** | to-infinitive | Rome *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with other major European cities of the time in terms of wealth and grandeur and the arts and learning and architecture | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with city=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **term** |  |  | wealth and grandeur |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication 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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