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title: He funded the building of several churches and allowed clergy to act… — Rome · tree and pragmatics
description: He funded the building of several churches and allowed clergy to act as arbitrators in civil suits (a measure that did not outlast him but which was restored in part much later). Who acts: Constantine, measure. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Rome» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Rome, sentence 98

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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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He funded the building of several churches and allowed clergy to act as arbitrators in civil suits (a measure that did not outlast him but which was restored in part much later).

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**Who acts:** Constantine, measure · **What happens:** fund, allow, act, not outlast, restore · **To what, where:** building, civil suits, Constantine, part

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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 (Constantine, measure), 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:98
# text = He funded the building of several churches and allowed clergy to act as arbitrators in civil suits (a measure that did not outlast him but which was restored in part much later).
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	funded	fund	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	clergy	clergy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	arbitrators	arbitrator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	suits	suit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	outlast	outlast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	much	much	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fund** | past | Constantine | the building of several churches and allowed clergy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **allow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **act** | to-infinitive | Constantine *not said here* |  |  | civil suits |  | as arbitrators | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as arbitrator=Attribute |
| 4 | **not** **outlast** | past · do-support | a measure | Constantine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **restore** | past · passive |  |  |  | part |  | which *nsubj:pass*; late *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |

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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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