Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us, sentence 14

In 476 a Germanic general removed the last western emperor, a boy named Romulus Augustulus, and this date is often given as the fall of Rome.

Who acts: Germanic general · What happens: remove, name, give · To what, where: last western emperor, 476, boy, date

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 (Germanic general), 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	_	2 476	case
2	476	476	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 removed	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 general	det
4	Germanic	Germanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 general	amod
5	general	general	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 removed	nsubj
6	removed	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 emperor	det
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 emperor	amod
9	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 emperor	amod
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 removed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 boy	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 emperor	appos
14	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 boy	acl
15	Romulus	Romulus	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 named	xcomp
16	Augustulus	Augustulus	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Romulus	flat
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 given	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 given	cc
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 date	det
20	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 given	nsubj:pass
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 given	aux:pass
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 given	advmod
23	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 removed	conj
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 fall	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fall	det
26	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 given	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Rome	case
28	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 fall	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 removed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remove	past	a Germanic general	the last western emperor	476		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme
2	name	participle		a boy not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	give	present · passive		this date		as the fall of Rome; often property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:14.

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 ×2. 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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