Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic, sentence 0
Romans told a legend that their city was founded in 753 BC by twin brothers, Romulus and Remus, who as babies were saved and fed by a she-wolf.
Who acts: Romans, twin brothers · What happens: tell, found, save, feed · To what, where: legend, city, 753, twin brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Romans, twin brothers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 legend | det |
| 4 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 founded | mark |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 city | nmod:poss |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 founded | aux:pass |
| 9 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 legend | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 753 | case |
| 11 | 753 | 753 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 founded | obl |
| 12 | BC | BC | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 753 | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 brothers | case |
| 14 | twin | twin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brothers | compound |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 founded | obl:agent |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Romulus | punct |
| 17 | Romulus | Romulus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brothers | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Remus | cc |
| 19 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Romulus | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saved | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 babies | case |
| 23 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 saved | obl |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 saved | aux:pass |
| 25 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fed | cc |
| 27 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 saved | conj |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 wolf | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 wolf | det |
| 30 | she | she | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wolf | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 wolf | punct |
| 32 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fed | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Romans | a legend | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent legend=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | found | past · passive | twin brothers and Romulus and Remus | Romans's city | 753 BC | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | save | past · passive | twin brothers and Romulus and Remus | as babies | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | feed | participle | by a she wolf | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:history:013-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic.lesson:0.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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