Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic, sentence 13

The Senate was a council of experienced, mostly rich men who advised the leaders and controlled money and foreign affairs; the USA and other countries still have a Senate.

Who acts: Senate, experienced rich men, USA · What happens: be, advise, control, have · To what, where: council, leaders, money, Senate

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 (Senate, experienced rich men, USA), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Senate	det
2	Senate	Senate	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 council	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 council	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 council	det
5	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 men	case
7	experienced	experienced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 men	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 experienced	punct
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	10 rich	advmod
10	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 men	amod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 council	nmod
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 advised	nsubj
13	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 men	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 leaders	det
15	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 advised	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 controlled	cc
17	controlled	control	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 advised	conj
18	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 controlled	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 affairs	cc
20	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 affairs	amod
21	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 money	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 USA	det
24	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 have	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 countries	cc
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 countries	amod
27	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 USA	conj
28	still	still	ADV	_	29 have	advmod
29	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 council	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 Senate	det
31	Senate	Senate	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 have	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 council	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Senate	a council		of experienced rich men	tree rules
2	advise speech: other	past	experienced rich men	the leaders			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leader=Recipient
3	control	past	experienced rich men not said here	money and foreign affairs			vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
4	have	present	the USA and other countries	a Senate	still		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent senate=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.

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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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