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title: After the foundation by Romulus (according to a legend), Rome was ru… — Rome · tree and pragmatics
description: After the foundation by Romulus (according to a legend), Rome was ruled for a period of 244 years by a monarchy. Who acts: monarchy. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rome» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rome, sentence 57

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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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After the foundation by Romulus (according to a legend), Rome was ruled for a period of 244 years by a monarchy.

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**Who acts:** monarchy · **What happens:** accord, rule · **To what, where:** Rome

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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 (monarchy), 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:57
# text = After the foundation by Romulus (according to a legend), Rome was ruled for a period of 244 years by a monarchy.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Romulus	Romulus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	case	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	244	244	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	monarchy	monarchy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rule** | past · passive | a monarchy | Rome |  |  | after the foundation by Romulus | for a period of 244 years | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |

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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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