Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic, sentence 6
Rome had two consuls at the top for that very reason, and a Senate of experienced men to advise them.
Who acts: Rome · What happens: have, advise · To what, where: two consuls, top, consuls
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 (Rome), 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 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 consuls | nummod |
| 4 | consuls | consul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 top | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 top | det |
| 7 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 reason | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 reason | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 reason | amod |
| 11 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Senate | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Senate | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Senate | det |
| 15 | Senate | Senate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 consuls | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 men | case |
| 17 | experienced | experienced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 men | amod |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Senate | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 advise | mark |
| 20 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Senate | acl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 advise | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Rome | two consuls and a Senate of experienced men | the top | for that very reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consul=Patient | ||
| 2 | advise speech: other | to-infinitive | Rome not said here | consuls = consul | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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:6.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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