Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity, sentence 18
Many people in Rome were enslaved, captured in war or born to slaves, and worked in houses, fields, mines and workshops; some were freed, and Spartacus led a huge slave revolt.
Who acts: Spartacus · What happens: enslave, capture, bear, work, free, lead · To what, where: Many people, war, some, huge slave revolt
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 (Spartacus), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 enslaved | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Rome | case |
| 4 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 people | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enslaved | aux:pass |
| 6 | enslaved | enslave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 captured | punct |
| 8 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 enslaved | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 war | case |
| 10 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 captured | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 born | cc |
| 12 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 captured | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 slaves | case |
| 14 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 born | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 worked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 worked | cc |
| 17 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enslaved | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 houses | case |
| 19 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 worked | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fields | punct |
| 21 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 houses | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mines | punct |
| 23 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 houses | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 workshops | cc |
| 25 | workshops | workshop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 houses | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 freed | punct |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 freed | aux:pass |
| 29 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 enslaved | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 led | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 led | cc |
| 32 | Spartacus | Spartacus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 led | nsubj |
| 33 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 freed | conj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 revolt | det |
| 35 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 revolt | amod |
| 36 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 revolt | compound |
| 37 | revolt | revolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 led | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 enslaved | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enslave | past · passive | Many people in Rome | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | capture | participle | war | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bear | participle | to slaves | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | work | past | in houses and fields and mines and workshops | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in house=Theme | |||||
| 5 | free | past · passive | some | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source | |||||
| 6 | lead | past | Spartacus | a huge slave revolt | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revolt=Theme |
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:18.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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