Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us, sentence 12
In 410 the Visigoths captured and looted Rome itself, the first time an enemy had taken the city in about 800 years.
Who acts: Visigoths, enemy · What happens: capture, loot, take · To what, where: 410, Rome, city
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 (Visigoths, enemy), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 410 | case |
| 2 | 410 | 410 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 captured | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Visigoths | det |
| 4 | Visigoths | visigoth | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 captured | nsubj |
| 5 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looted | cc |
| 7 | looted | loot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 captured | conj |
| 8 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 looted | obj |
| 9 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 8 Rome | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 taken | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 enemy | det |
| 15 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 captured | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 city | det |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 years | case |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 800 | advmod |
| 22 | 800 | 800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 years | nummod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 taken | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 captured | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | capture | past | the Visigoths | 410 | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | loot | past | the Visigoths not said here | Rome empire | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past · perfect | a enemy | the city | time; year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
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:12.
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): R8-pos-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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