Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads, sentence 5
But not everyone welcomed them: Boudica in Britain led a great revolt, and Hadrian built a wall to mark where the empire ended.
Who acts: everyone, Boudica, Hadrian, empire · What happens: welcome, lead, build, mark, end · To what, where: aqueducts, great revolt, wall
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 (everyone, Boudica, Hadrian, empire), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 welcomed | cc |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 everyone | advmod |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 welcomed | nsubj |
| 4 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 led | parataxis |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 welcomed | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Boudica | punct |
| 7 | Boudica | Boudica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 led | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Britain | case |
| 9 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Boudica | nmod |
| 10 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 revolt | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 revolt | amod |
| 13 | revolt | revolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 built | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 built | cc |
| 16 | Hadrian | Hadrian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 built | nsubj |
| 17 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 led | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wall | det |
| 19 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 built | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 mark | mark |
| 21 | mark | mark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wall | acl |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 ended | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 empire | det |
| 24 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ended | nsubj |
| 25 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 mark | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 welcomed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | welcome | past | everyone | aqueducts = aqueduct | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | Boudica in Britain | a great revolt | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revolt=Theme | ||||
| 3 | build | past | Hadrian | a wall | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Product | ||||
| 4 | mark | to-infinitive | Hadrian not said here | a wall not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | end | past | the empire | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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:5.
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): R6-punct-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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