Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity, sentence 7
The town of Pompeii, buried by a volcano in AD 79, shows Roman life frozen in time.
Who acts: town · What happens: bury, show, freeze · To what, where: town, AD, Roman life
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), 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 | 2 town | det |
| 2 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Pompeii | case |
| 4 | Pompeii | Pompeii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 town | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 buried | punct |
| 6 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 town | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 volcano | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 volcano | det |
| 9 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buried | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 AD | case |
| 11 | AD | ad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 buried | obl |
| 12 | 79 | 79 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 AD | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 town | punct |
| 14 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 life | amod |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shows | obj |
| 17 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 life | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 frozen | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | participle | the town of Pompeii not said here | AD | by a volcano | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by volcano=Destination | |||
| 2 | show | present | the town of Pompeii | Roman life | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent life=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | freeze | participle | Roman life not said here | time | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:7.
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 ×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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