Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads, sentence 1

Under emperors, everything depended on one person: good ones like Augustus, Trajan and Marcus Aurelius ruled well, while cruel or foolish ones like Caligula and Nero did much harm.

Who acts: everything, cruel ones · What happens: depend, rule, do · To what, where: much harm

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 (everything, cruel ones), 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	Under	under	ADP	_	2 emperors	case
2	emperors	emperor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 depended	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 emperors	punct
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 depended	nsubj
5	depended	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 person	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 person	nummod
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 depended	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 ones	punct
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 person	appos
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 Augustus	case
13	Augustus	Augustus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 ones	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Trajan	punct
15	Trajan	Trajan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Augustus	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Marcus	cc
17	Marcus	Marcus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Augustus	conj
18	Aurelius	Aurelius	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Marcus	flat
19	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ones	parataxis
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 ruled	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 did	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 did	mark
23	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ones	amod
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 foolish	cc
25	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cruel	conj
26	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 did	nsubj
27	like	like	ADP	_	28 Caligula	case
28	Caligula	Caligula	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 ones	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Nero	cc
30	Nero	Nero	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Caligula	conj
31	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ruled	conj
32	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 harm	amod
33	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 did	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 depended	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	depend	past	everything		under emperors; on one person	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on person=Theme
2	rule	past			well property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	do	past	cruel ones like Caligula and Nero	much harm		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality

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:1.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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