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title: Several excavations support the view that Rome grew from pastoral se… — Rome · tree and pragmatics
description: Several excavations support the view that Rome grew from pastoral settlements on the Palatine Hill built above the area of the future Roman Forum. Who acts: Several excavations, Rome, view. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rome» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rome, sentence 41

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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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Several excavations support the view that Rome grew from pastoral settlements on the Palatine Hill built above the area of the future Roman Forum.

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**Who acts:** Several excavations, Rome, view · **What happens:** support, grow, build · **To what, where:** view, pastoral settlements, area

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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 (Several excavations, Rome, view), 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:41
# text = Several excavations support the view that Rome grew from pastoral settlements on the Palatine Hill built above the area of the future Roman Forum.
1	Several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	excavations	excavation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	support	support	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	pastoral	pastoral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	settlements	settlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Palatine	Palatine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	above	above	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	Roman	Roman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Forum	Forum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **support** | present | Several excavations |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Rome | the view *not said here* |  | pastoral settlements on the Palatine Hill |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent view=Product from settlement=Material |
| 3 | **build** | past | the view |  |  | the area of the future Roman Forum |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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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