Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us, sentence 11

The western empire faced civil wars, money troubles, disease and many peoples pushing across its borders, such as Goths, Vandals and Huns; many problems together weakened it, not one single cause.

Who acts: western empire, many peoples, many problems · What happens: face, push, weaken · To what, where: civil wars, borders, empire

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 (western empire, many peoples, many problems), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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statement

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assert

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narrator

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none

teacher

kept the draft

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