Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic, sentence 10
Rome grew on seven hills beside the river Tiber, at a place where people could cross the river, good for trade and defence.
Who acts: Rome, people · What happens: grow, cross · To what, where: seven hills, river
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 (Rome, people), 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 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 hills | case |
| 4 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hills | nummod |
| 5 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grew | obl |
| 6 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 9 Tiber | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tiber | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Tiber | compound |
| 9 | Tiber | tiber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 place | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 cross | advmod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cross | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 cross | aux |
| 17 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 place | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 river | det |
| 19 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cross | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 good | punct |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 place | amod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 trade | case |
| 23 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 good | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 defence | cc |
| 25 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trade | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Rome | seven hills | beside the river Tiber; at a place | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hill=Location | |||
| 2 | cross | could | people | the river | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient |
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:10.
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): no change. 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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