Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity, sentence 14
Gladiators fought in arenas to entertain crowds; many were slaves or prisoners, some were volunteers, and famous ones were like sports stars.
Who acts: Gladiators, many, some · What happens: fight, entertain, be · To what, where: arenas, crowds, slaves, volunteers
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 (Gladiators, many, some), 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 | Gladiators | gladiator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 arenas | case |
| 4 | arenas | arena | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fought | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 entertain | mark |
| 6 | entertain | entertain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 fought | advcl |
| 7 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 entertain | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 slaves | punct |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 slaves | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 slaves | cop |
| 11 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fought | parataxis |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 prisoners | cc |
| 13 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 slaves | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 volunteers | punct |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 volunteers | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 volunteers | cop |
| 17 | volunteers | volunteer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 slaves | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ones | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ones | cc |
| 20 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ones | amod |
| 21 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 volunteers | conj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 volunteers | cop |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 stars | case |
| 24 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stars | compound |
| 25 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 were | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | Gladiators | arenas | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | entertain | to-infinitive | Gladiators not said here | crowds | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus crowd=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | many | slaves or prisoners and volunteers and famous ones | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | some | volunteers and famous ones | 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:015-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity.lesson:14.
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 ×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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