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title: Italian troops were able to capture Rome entering the city through a… — Rome · tree and pragmatics
description: Italian troops were able to capture Rome entering the city through a breach near Porta Pia. Who acts: Italian troops. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rome» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rome, sentence 203

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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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Italian troops were able to capture Rome entering the city through a breach near Porta Pia.

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**Who acts:** Italian troops · **What happens:** be, capture, enter · **To what, where:** Rome, city, breach

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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 (Italian troops), 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:203
# text = Italian troops were able to capture Rome entering the city through a breach near Porta Pia.
1	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	capture	capture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	breach	breach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	near	near	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Porta	Porta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	Pia	Pia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Italian troops |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **capture** | to-infinitive | Italian troops *not said here* | Rome |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rome=Theme |
| 3 | **enter** | gerund | Italian troops *not said here* | the city |  | a breach near Porta |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Destination |

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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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