Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads, sentence 3
It is like a giant train network: the faster soldiers and messages can travel, the easier a huge country is to run.
Who acts: Empire, faster soldiers · What happens: be, travel · To what, where: giant train network
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 (Empire, faster soldiers), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 network | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 network | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 network | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 network | det |
| 5 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 network | amod |
| 6 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 network | compound |
| 7 | network | network | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 network | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 soldiers | det |
| 10 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 soldiers | amod |
| 11 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 travel | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 messages | cc |
| 13 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 soldiers | conj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 travel | aux |
| 15 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 network | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 easier | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 easier | det |
| 18 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 travel | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 country | det |
| 20 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 country | amod |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 easier | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 run | cop |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 run | mark |
| 24 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 easier | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 network | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Empire | like a giant train network | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | travel | can | the faster soldiers and messages | a giant train network not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme network=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the faster soldiers and messages not said here | run property | tree rules |
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:3.
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): 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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