Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us, sentence 1

The empire grew too big for one ruler and was split into a western half ruled from Rome and an eastern half ruled from Constantinople.

Who acts: empire · What happens: grow, split, rule · To what, where: western half, Rome, eastern half, Constantinople

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 (empire), 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 empire	det
2	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 ruler	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 ruler	nummod
8	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 big	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 split	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 split	aux:pass
11	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grew	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 half	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 half	det
14	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 half	amod
15	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	11 split	obl
16	ruled	rule	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 half	acl
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 Rome	case
18	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ruled	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 half	cc
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 half	det
21	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 half	amod
22	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	15 half	conj
23	ruled	rule	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 half	acl
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 Constantinople	case
25	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 ruled	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the empire			big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	split	past · passive	the empire not said here			into a western half and a eastern half result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: into half=Result
3	rule	participle		a western half and a eastern half not said here	Rome		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	rule	participle		a eastern half not said here	Constantinople		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:016-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us.lesson:1.

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): no change. 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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