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title: Soon after World War I in late 1922 Rome witnessed the rise of Itali… — Rome · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after World War I in late 1922 Rome witnessed the rise of Italian Fascism led by Benito Mussolini, who led a march on the city. Who acts: I, Benito, Italian Fascism. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rome» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rome, sentence 208

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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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Soon after World War I in late 1922 Rome witnessed the rise of Italian Fascism led by Benito Mussolini, who led a march on the city.

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**Who acts:** I, Benito, Italian Fascism · **What happens:** witness, lead, rise · **To what, where:** rise, late 1922, march, 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 (I, Benito, Italian Fascism), 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:208
# text = Soon after World War I in late 1922 Rome witnessed the rise of Italian Fascism led by Benito Mussolini, who led a march on the city.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	1922	1922	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
9	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	witnessed	witness	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Fascism	Fascism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Benito	Benito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl:agent	_	_
19	Mussolini	Mussolini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **witness** | past | I | the rise of Italian Fascism |  | late 1922 | after World War | Rome *nsubj*; soon *property* | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rise=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **lead** | participle |  | the rise of Italian Fascism *not said here* |  |  |  | Benito *obl:agent* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **lead** | past | Benito | a march |  | the city |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent march=Theme on city=Destination |
| 4 | **rise** |  | Italian Fascism |  |  |  |  |  | nom rise «event 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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