Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic, sentence 11

Rome was first ruled by kings; in about 509 BC the Romans threw out the last king and swore never to have a king again.

Who acts: kings, Romans · What happens: rule, throw out, not swear, have · To what, where: Rome, last king, 509 BC, king

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 (kings, Romans), 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	4 ruled	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ruled	aux:pass
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 ruled	advmod
4	ruled	rule	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 threw	parataxis
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 kings	case
6	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ruled	obl:agent
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 509	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 BC	case
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 509	advmod
10	509	509	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 BC	nummod
11	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Romans	det
13	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 threw	nsubj
14	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 threw	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 king	amod
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 swore	cc
20	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 threw	conj
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 swore	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 have	mark
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 swore	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
26	again	again	ADV	_	23 have	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ruled	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past · passive	kings	Rome			first property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result
2	throw out	past	the Romans	the last king	509 BC			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent king=Theme in bc=Destination
3	not swear	past	the Romans not said here					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	to-infinitive	the Romans not said here	a king		again		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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:11.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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