Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity, sentence 2
The town centre was the forum, where people shopped, did business and listened to speeches.
Who acts: town centre, people · What happens: be, shop, do, listen · To what, where: forum, business
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 (town centre, people), 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 centre | det |
| 2 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 centre | compound |
| 3 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forum | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 forum | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forum | det |
| 6 | forum | forum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shopped | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 shopped | advmod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shopped | nsubj |
| 10 | shopped | shop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 forum | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shopped | conj |
| 13 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 listened | cc |
| 15 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shopped | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 speeches | case |
| 17 | speeches | speech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 listened | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 forum | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the town centre | the forum | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shop | past | people | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | past | people not said here | business | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | listen | past | people not said here | to speeches | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to speech=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:2.
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 ×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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