Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity, sentence 12

Ordinary Romans ate bread, porridge, olives, cheese and vegetables, and rich Romans held feasts lying on couches, with dishes like dormice and fish sauce.

Who acts: Ordinary Romans, rich Romans, feasts · What happens: eat, hold, lie · To what, where: bread, feasts, couches

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity» 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 (Ordinary Romans, rich Romans, feasts), 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	Ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Romans	amod
2	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 porridge	punct
6	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bread	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 olives	punct
8	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bread	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cheese	punct
10	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bread	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 vegetables	cc
12	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bread	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 held	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 held	cc
15	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Romans	amod
16	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 held	nsubj
17	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
18	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 held	obj
19	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 feasts	acl
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 couches	case
21	couches	couch	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lying	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dishes	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 dishes	case
24	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lying	obl
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 dormice	case
26	dormice	dormouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 dishes	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sauce	cc
28	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sauce	compound
29	sauce	sauce	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dormice	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Ordinary Romans	bread and porridge and olives and cheese and vegetables			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
2	hold	past	rich Romans	feasts			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme
3	lie	gerund	feasts not said here		couches	with dishes like dormice and fish sauce	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on couch=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:015-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity.lesson:12.

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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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