Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic, sentence 17
Julius Caesar, a brilliant general, conquered Gaul, today's France, took power in Rome, and was killed by senators in 44 BC who feared he wanted to be king.
Who acts: brilliant general, Julius, senators, BC · What happens: conquer, take, kill, fear, want, be · To what, where: Gaul, power, Rome, 44, king · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (brilliant general, Julius, senators, BC), 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 | Julius | Julius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 2 | Caesar | Caesar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Julius | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 general | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 general | det |
| 5 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 general | amod |
| 6 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Julius | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 conquered | punct |
| 8 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 general | acl |
| 9 | Gaul | Gaul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 conquered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 general | punct |
| 11 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 France | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 today | case |
| 13 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Gaul | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Rome | case |
| 18 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 killed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 killed | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 killed | aux:pass |
| 22 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 took | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 senators | case |
| 24 | senators | senator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 killed | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 44 | case |
| 26 | 44 | 44 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 killed | obl |
| 27 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 44 | nmod:unmarked |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 feared | nsubj |
| 29 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 BC | acl:relcl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 wanted | nsubj |
| 31 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 feared | ccomp |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 king | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 king | cop |
| 34 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 wanted | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | participle | a brilliant general not said here | Gaul | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gaul=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Julius | power | Rome | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent power=Value in rome=Location | |||
| 3 | kill | past · passive | senators | 44 BC | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | fear | past | BC | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | want | past | Julius | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | Julius not said here | king | tree rules |
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:17.
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. 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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