Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic, sentence 12
In the Roman Republic citizens elected leaders for one year at a time, and two consuls shared the top job so neither could become too powerful.
Who acts: citizens, two consuls · What happens: elect, share, become · To what, where: leaders, Roman Republic, top job
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 (citizens, two consuls), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Republic | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Republic | det |
| 3 | Roman | Roman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Republic | compound |
| 4 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 elected | obl |
| 5 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 elected | nsubj |
| 6 | elected | elect | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 elected | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 year | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 year | nummod |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 elected | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 year | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shared | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shared | cc |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 consuls | nummod |
| 17 | consuls | consul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shared | nsubj |
| 18 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 elected | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 job | det |
| 20 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 job | amod |
| 21 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shared | obj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 become | advmod |
| 23 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 25 become | advmod |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 become | aux |
| 25 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 shared | advcl |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 27 powerful | advmod |
| 27 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 become | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 elected | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elect | past | citizens | leaders | the Roman Republic | year | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme | ||
| 2 | share | past | two consuls | the top job | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | could | two consuls not said here | neither, powerful property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:12.
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 ×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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