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title: In 509 BC, the Romans expelled the last king from their city and est… — Rome · tree and pragmatics
description: In 509 BC, the Romans expelled the last king from their city and established an oligarchic republic led by two annually elected consuls. Who acts: Romans. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rome» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rome, sentence 60

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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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In 509 BC, the Romans expelled the last king from their city and established an oligarchic republic led by two annually elected consuls.

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**Who acts:** Romans · **What happens:** expel, establish, lead, elect · **To what, where:** last king, 509, oligarchic republic

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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 (Romans), 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:60
# text = In 509 BC, the Romans expelled the last king from their city and established an oligarchic republic led by two annually elected consuls.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	509	509	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	expelled	expel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	oligarchic	oligarchic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
22	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	elected	elect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	consuls	consul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expel** | past | the Romans | the last king |  | 509  BC |  | from Romans's city | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent king=Theme from city=Source |
| 2 | **establish** | past | the Romans *not said here* | a oligarchic republic |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republic=Patient |
| 3 | **lead** | participle |  | a oligarchic republic *not said here* |  |  |  | by two elected consuls | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by consul=Destination |
| 4 | **elect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | annually *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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