Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity, sentence 9
The forum was the centre of a Roman town, with markets, temples, law courts and speeches.
Who acts: forum · What happens: be · To what, where: centre
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 (forum), 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 forum | det |
| 2 | forum | forum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 centre | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 centre | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 centre | det |
| 5 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 8 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 town | amod |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 centre | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 markets | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 markets | case |
| 12 | markets | market | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 town | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 temples | punct |
| 14 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 markets | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 courts | punct |
| 16 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 courts | compound |
| 17 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 temples | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 courts | cc |
| 19 | speeches | speech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 temples | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 centre | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the forum | the centre | of a Roman town | tree rules |
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:9.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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