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title: Pope Pius IX declared himself a prisoner in the Vatican. — Rome · tree and pragmatics
description: Pope Pius IX declared himself a prisoner in the Vatican. Who acts: Pope Pius. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rome» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rome, sentence 204

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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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Pope Pius IX declared himself a prisoner in the Vatican.

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**Who acts:** Pope Pius · **What happens:** declare · **To what, where:** Rome, Vatican

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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 (Pope Pius), 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:204
# text = Pope Pius IX declared himself a prisoner in the Vatican.
1	Pope	Pope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Pius	Pius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	IX	IX	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Vatican	Vatican	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Pope Pius | Rome |  | the Vatican |  | a prisoner *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme prisoner=Attribute |

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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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