Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads, sentence 6
At its biggest, about 1,900 years ago, the Roman Empire stretched from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to Syria, around the whole Mediterranean.
Who acts: Roman Empire · What happens: stretch · To what, where: Egypt, biggest
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), 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 Number=Sing Person=3 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 | around | around | ADP | _ | 27 Mediterranean | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Mediterranean | det |
| 26 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Mediterranean | amod |
| 27 | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stretched | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | past | the Roman Empire | Egypt and Spain to Syria | Empire's biggest | from Britain; around the whole Mediterranean; ago property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from britain=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:6.
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): 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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