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title: Metal-work, coin die and gem engraving, ivory carvings, figurine gla… — Rome · tree and pragmatics
description: Metal-work, coin die and gem engraving, ivory carvings, figurine glass, pottery, and book illustrations are considered to be 'minor' forms of Roman artwork. Who acts: Metal work. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rome» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rome, sentence 399

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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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Metal-work, coin die and gem engraving, ivory carvings, figurine glass, pottery, and book illustrations are considered to be 'minor' forms of Roman artwork.

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**Who acts:** Metal work · **What happens:** die, gem, engrave, consider, be, form · **To what, where:** ivory carvings, book illustrations, Roman artwork

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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 (Metal work), 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:399
# text = Metal-work, coin die and gem engraving, ivory carvings, figurine glass, pottery, and book illustrations are considered to be 'minor' forms of Roman artwork.
1	Metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	gem	gem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	engraving	engrave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	ivory	ivory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	carvings	carving	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	figurine	figurine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	pottery	pottery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	illustrations	illustration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	minor	minor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	xcomp	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	artwork	artwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | present | Metal work and coin |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **gem** | present | Metal work and coin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **engrave** | gerund | Metal work and coin *not said here* | ivory carvings and figurine glass and pottery |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent carving=Theme |
| 4 | **consider** | present · passive |  | book illustrations |  |  |  | minor forms of Roman artwork *xcomp* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | minor *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **form** |  |  | Roman artwork |  |  |  |  | nom form «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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