Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us, sentence 0
Emperor Constantine became the first Christian emperor, allowed Christians to worship freely in 313 and founded a new capital, Constantinople, today's Istanbul.
Who acts: Emperor Constantine, Christians · What happens: become, allow, worship, found · To what, where: first Christian emperor, Christians, 313, new capital
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us» 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 (Emperor Constantine, Christians), 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 | Emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Constantine | compound |
| 2 | Constantine | Constantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 emperor | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 emperor | amod |
| 6 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 emperor | amod |
| 7 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 became | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 allowed | punct |
| 9 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | advcl |
| 10 | Christians | Christian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 allowed | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 worship | mark |
| 12 | worship | worship | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 allowed | xcomp |
| 13 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 12 worship | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 313 | case |
| 15 | 313 | 313 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 worship | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 founded | cc |
| 17 | founded | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 allowed | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 capital | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 capital | amod |
| 20 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 founded | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Constantinople | punct |
| 22 | Constantinople | Constantinople | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 capital | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Istanbul | punct |
| 24 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Istanbul | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 today | case |
| 26 | Istanbul | Istanbul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Constantinople | appos |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Emperor Constantine | the first Christian emperor | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | allow | past | Emperor Constantine not said here | Christians | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer christian=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | worship not said to happen | to-infinitive | Christians not said here | 313 | freely property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | found | past | Emperor Constantine not said here | a new capital | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=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.
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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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