Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic, sentence 19

After Caesar's death his adopted son Octavian won the civil wars and became Augustus, the first emperor, in 27 BC; he said the Republic still went on, but real power was now his, and the month August is named after him.

Who acts: adopted son, son, Republic, real power, Caesar · What happens: adopt, win, become, say, go on, be · To what, where: civil wars, 27, BC, August · 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 (adopted son, son, Republic, real power), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 death	case
2	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 death	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Caesar	case
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 won	obl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
6	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 son	amod
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 won	nsubj
8	Octavian	Octavian	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 son	appos
9	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wars	det
11	civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wars	amod
12	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 won	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 became	cc
14	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 won	conj
15	Augustus	Augustus	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 became	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 emperor	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 emperor	det
18	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 emperor	amod
19	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Augustus	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 27	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 27	case
22	27	27	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 won	obl
23	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 27	nmod:unmarked
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 won	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Republic	det
28	Republic	Republic	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 went	nsubj
29	still	still	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 said	ccomp
31	on	on	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 his	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 his	cc
34	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 power	amod
35	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 his	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 his	cop
37	now	now	ADV	_	38 his	advmod
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 went	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 named	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 named	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 month	det
42	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 August	nmod:desc
43	August	August	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 named	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 named	aux:pass
45	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 his	conj
46	after	after	ADP	_	47 him	case
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 named	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 won	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	adopt	participle					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	win	past	Caesar's adopted son	the civil wars	27 BC	after Caesar's death	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality
3	become	past	Caesar's adopted son not said here				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	son				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go on	past	the Republic			still	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	past	real power	BC		now	tree rules
7	name	present · passive		August the month		after BC	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	die		Caesar				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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:19.

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 ×4, R7-rel-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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