Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads, sentence 2
Rome held this empire together with a professional army, the legions, and with straight paved roads.
Who acts: Rome · What happens: hold, pave · To what, where: empire
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 (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 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 empire | det |
| 4 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obj |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 held | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 army | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 army | det |
| 8 | professional | professional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 army | amod |
| 9 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 legions | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 legions | det |
| 12 | legions | legion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 army | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 roads | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 roads | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 roads | case |
| 16 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 17 paved | advmod |
| 17 | paved | pave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 roads | amod |
| 18 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 army | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | Rome | this empire | with a professional army and the legions and paved roads; together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Theme | |||
| 2 | pave | participle | straight property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:014-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads.lesson:2.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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