Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic, sentence 3
In about 509 BC the Romans threw out the last, cruel king and swore never to have one again.
Who acts: Romans · What happens: throw out, swear, not have · To what, where: last cruel king, 509, one
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 509 | case |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 509 | advmod |
| 3 | 509 | 509 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 threw | obl |
| 4 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 509 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Romans | det |
| 6 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 threw | nsubj |
| 7 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 threw | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 king | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 last | punct |
| 12 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 king | amod |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threw | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 swore | cc |
| 15 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 threw | conj |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 have | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 swore | xcomp |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 have | obj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 have | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw out | past | the Romans | the last cruel king | 509 BC | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent king=Theme in 509=Destination | |||
| 2 | swear | past | the Romans not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not have | to-infinitive | the Romans not said here | one | again | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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.
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:3.
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): R8-pos-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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