Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic, sentence 4
Instead they made a republic, where citizens elected leaders for one year at a time.
Who acts: Romans, citizens · What happens: make, elect · To what, where: republic, leaders
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, citizens), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 republic | det |
| 5 | republic | republic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 elected | punct |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 elected | advmod |
| 8 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 elected | nsubj |
| 9 | elected | elect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 republic | acl:relcl |
| 10 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 elected | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 year | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 year | nummod |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 elected | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 year | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Romans = roman | a republic | instead property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset republic=Product | |||
| 2 | elect | past | citizens | leaders | year | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme |
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:4.
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): no change. 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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