Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity, sentence 20
In AD 79 the volcano Vesuvius buried the town of Pompeii in ash, and it was dug out much later with streets, shops, paintings and even graffiti.
Who acts: volcano · What happens: bury, dig out · To what, where: town, AD, volcano
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 (volcano), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 AD | case |
| 2 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buried | obl |
| 3 | 79 | 79 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 AD | flat |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 volcano | det |
| 5 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buried | nsubj |
| 6 | Vesuvius | Vesuvius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 volcano | appos |
| 7 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buried | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Pompeii | case |
| 11 | Pompeii | Pompeii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 town | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 ash | case |
| 13 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buried | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dug | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dug | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dug | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dug | aux:pass |
| 18 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 buried | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 dug | compound:prt |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 later | advmod |
| 21 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 dug | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 streets | case |
| 23 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dug | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 shops | punct |
| 25 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 streets | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 paintings | punct |
| 27 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 streets | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 graffiti | cc |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 graffiti | advmod |
| 30 | graffiti | graffiti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 streets | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past | the volcano | the town of Pompeii | AD | in ash | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent town=Theme in ad=Destination | ||
| 2 | dig out | past · passive | volcano | with streets and shops and paintings and graffiti; late property | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: subject=Theme with street=Instrument |
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:20.
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 ×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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