Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads, sentence 0

At its biggest, about 1,900 years ago, the Roman Empire stretched from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to Syria, all around the Mediterranean, with many peoples living under one law and one money.

Who acts: Roman Empire, many peoples · What happens: stretch, live · To what, where: Egypt, biggest, one law

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads» 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 (Roman Empire, many peoples), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 biggest	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 biggest	nmod:poss
3	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 stretched	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stretched	punct
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 1,900	advmod
6	1,900	1,900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ago	obl:unmarked
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	13 stretched	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stretched	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Empire	det
11	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Empire	amod
12	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 stretched	nsubj
13	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 Britain	case
15	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 stretched	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Egypt	case
17	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 stretched	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Spain	cc
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 Spain	case
20	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Egypt	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 Syria	case
22	Syria	Syria	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Spain	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Mediterranean	punct
24	all	all	ADV	_	27 Mediterranean	advmod
25	around	around	ADP	_	27 Mediterranean	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Mediterranean	det
27	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Egypt	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 peoples	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 peoples	case
30	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 peoples	amod
31	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 Egypt	conj
32	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 peoples	acl
33	under	under	ADP	_	35 law	case
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 law	nummod
35	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 living	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 money	cc
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 money	nummod
38	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 law	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 stretched	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	stretch	past	the Roman Empire		Egypt and Spain to Syria and the Mediterranean and many peoples	its biggest		from Britain; ago property	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from britain=Location
2	live	gerund	many peoples not said here			one law and one money			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under law=Location

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:014-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads.lesson:0.

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 ×2, 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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