Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic, sentence 1

Archaeology tells a plainer story: villages on seven hills by the river Tiber grew together into a town.

Who acts: Archaeology, villages · What happens: tell, grow · To what, where: plainer story, town · 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 (Archaeology, villages), 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	Archaeology	archaeology	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	plainer	plain	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 villages	punct
7	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grew	nsubj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 hills	case
9	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hills	nummod
10	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 villages	nmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 Tiber	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hills	nmod
14	Tiber	Tiber	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 river	appos
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 story	appos
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 grew	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 town	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 town	det
19	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grew	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Archaeology	a plainer story					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	grow	past	villages on seven hills the river					into a town result; together property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into town=Result

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:1.

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 ×3. 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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