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title: Between the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age,… — Rome · tree and pragmatics
description: Between the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age, each hill between the sea and the Capitoline Hill was topped by a village (on the Capitoline, a village is attested since the end of the 14th century BC). Who acts: village, Capitoline. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rome» with its dep
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# Rome, sentence 42

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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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Between the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age, each hill between the sea and the Capitoline Hill was topped by a village (on the Capitoline, a village is attested since the end of the 14th century BC).

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**Who acts:** village, Capitoline · **What happens:** top, attest, begin · **To what, where:** hill, village, Iron Age

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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 (village, Capitoline), 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:42
# text = Between the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age, each hill between the sea and the Capitoline Hill was topped by a village (on the Capitoline, a village is attested since the end of the 14th century BC).
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Bronze	Bronze	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	between	between	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Capitoline	Capitoline	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	topped	top	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Capitoline	Capitoline	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	attested	attest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	_
39	since	since	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	14th	14th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	45	amod	_	_
45	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
46	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **top** | past · passive | a village | each hill between the sea and the Capitoline Hill |  |  | between the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **attest** | present · passive | the Capitoline *not said here* | a village |  |  | since the end of the 14th century |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** |  |  | the Iron Age |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event 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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