Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity, sentence 17
The Circus Maximus held perhaps 150,000 fans, who cheered for chariot teams called the Reds, Whites, Greens and Blues.
Who acts: Circus Maximus, 150,000 fans, chariot teams · What happens: hold, cheer, call · To what, where: 150,000 fans, Reds · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Circus Maximus, 150,000 fans, chariot teams), 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 | 3 Maximus | det |
| 2 | Circus | Circus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Maximus | compound |
| 3 | Maximus | Maximus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 held | nsubj |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 6 150,000 | advmod |
| 6 | 150,000 | 150000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 fans | nummod |
| 7 | fans | fan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 held | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cheered | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 cheered | nsubj |
| 10 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fans | acl:relcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 teams | case |
| 12 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 teams | compound |
| 13 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cheered | obl |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 teams | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Reds | det |
| 16 | Reds | red | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 called | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Whites | punct |
| 18 | Whites | white | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 Reds | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Greens | punct |
| 20 | Greens | green | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 Reds | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Blues | cc |
| 22 | Blues | blue | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 Reds | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the Circus Maximus | 150,000 fans | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fan=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cheer | past | 150,000 fans | for chariot teams | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | chariot teams not said here | the Reds and Whites and Greens and Blues | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:17.
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 ×3. 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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