Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads, sentence 8
The story that Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned is a myth; the fiddle had not even been invented.
Who acts: Nero, Rome, story · What happens: play, burn, be, not invent · To what, where: story, myth, fiddle
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 (Nero, Rome, story), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 myth | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 played | obj |
| 4 | Nero | Nero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 played | nsubj |
| 5 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 story | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fiddle | det |
| 7 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obj |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 burned | mark |
| 9 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 burned | nsubj |
| 10 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 played | advcl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 myth | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 myth | det |
| 13 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 myth | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fiddle | det |
| 16 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 invented | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 invented | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 invented | advmod |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 invented | advmod |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 invented | aux:pass |
| 21 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 myth | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 myth | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | Nero | the story | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary fiddle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burn | past | Rome | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the story | a myth | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not invent | past · perfect · passive | the fiddle | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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:8.
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): no change. 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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