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title: A palace was constructed nearby as early as the 5th century during t… — Vatican City · tree and pragmatics
description: A palace was constructed nearby as early as the 5th century during the pontificate of Pope Symmachus (reigned 498–514). Who acts: Pope. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vatican City» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vatican City, sentence 40

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From Wikipedia, [«Vatican City»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City), 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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A palace was constructed nearby as early as the 5th century during the pontificate of Pope Symmachus (reigned 498–514).

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**Who acts:** Pope · **What happens:** construct, reign · **To what, where:** palace, 498

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vatican City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pope), 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:Vatican_City:40
# text = A palace was constructed nearby as early as the 5th century during the pontificate of Pope Symmachus (reigned 498–514).
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	constructed	construct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	5th	5th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pontificate	pontificate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Pope	Pope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	Symmachus	Symmachus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	reigned	reign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
20	498	498	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	–	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	514	514	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **construct** | past · passive |  | a palace |  |  | during the pontificate of Pope; century | early, nearby *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **reign** | participle | Pope *not said here* | 498 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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, «Vatican City», 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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