Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic, sentence 8
Then the general Julius Caesar grew so powerful that senators killed him, and his adopted son Augustus became the first emperor.
Who acts: general Julius, senators, adopted son · What happens: grow, kill, adopt, become · To what, where: Julius, first emperor
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 (general Julius, senators, adopted son), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 grew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 general | det |
| 3 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Julius | amod |
| 4 | Julius | Julius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | Caesar | Caesar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Julius | flat |
| 6 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 powerful | advmod |
| 8 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grew | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 killed | mark |
| 10 | senators | senator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 killed | nsubj |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 powerful | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 killed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 became | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 became | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 son | amod |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 became | nsubj |
| 18 | Augustus | Augustus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 son | appos |
| 19 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grew | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 emperor | det |
| 21 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 emperor | amod |
| 22 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 became | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | general Julius | then | powerful property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | kill | past | senators | Julius | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | adopt | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | become | past | Julius's adopted son | the first emperor | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:8.
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 ×5. 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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