Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic, sentence 14

Rich old families were patricians and ordinary citizens were plebeians; the plebeians went on strike by leaving the city until they won more rights.

Who acts: Rich old families, plebeians · What happens: be, go, leave, win · To what, where: plebeians, strike, city, more rights

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 (Rich old families, plebeians), 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	Rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 families	amod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 families	amod
3	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 plebeians	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 plebeians	cop
5	patricians	patrician	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 plebeians	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 patricians	cc
7	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 citizens	amod
8	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 patricians	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 plebeians	cop
10	plebeians	plebeian	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 plebeians	det
13	plebeians	plebeian	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 plebeians	parataxis
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 strike	case
16	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 leaving	mark
18	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 went	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 city	det
20	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 leaving	obj
21	until	until	SCONJ	_	23 won	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 won	nsubj
23	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 leaving	advcl
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 rights	amod
25	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 won	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 plebeians	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	Rich old families	plebeians		tree rules
2	go	past	the plebeians		strike	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on strike=Location
3	leave	gerund	the plebeians not said here	the city		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme
4	win	past	plebeians = plebeian	more rights		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Eventuality

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:14.

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, R7-rel-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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