Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic, sentence 15
The Romans wrote their laws on twelve tablets displayed in the forum, and many countries' laws today are based on Roman law.
Who acts: Romans · What happens: write, display, base · To what, where: laws, twelve tablets, forum, Roman law
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Romans | det |
| 2 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 wrote | nsubj |
| 3 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 laws | nmod:poss |
| 5 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wrote | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 tablets | case |
| 7 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 tablets | nummod |
| 8 | tablets | tablet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wrote | obl |
| 9 | displayed | display | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tablets | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 forum | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forum | det |
| 12 | forum | forum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 displayed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 based | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 based | cc |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 countries | amod |
| 16 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 laws | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 16 countries | case |
| 18 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 based | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 based | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 based | aux:pass |
| 21 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wrote | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 law | case |
| 23 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 law | amod |
| 24 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 based | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | the Romans | Romans's laws | twelve tablets | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent law=Theme on tablet=Destination | |||
| 2 | display | participle | twelve tablets not said here | the forum | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | base | present · passive | many countries's laws | Roman law | today | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on law=Source |
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:15.
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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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