Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us, sentence 15

Rome did not fall in a day: for most people life changed slowly, and the West broke into kingdoms that later became countries like France, Spain and England.

Who acts: Rome, life, West, kingdoms · What happens: not fall, change, break, become · To what, where: kingdoms, countries

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 (Rome, life, West, kingdoms), 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	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fall	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 fall	advmod
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 fall	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 people	case
10	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 changed	obl
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 changed	nsubj
13	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	parataxis
14	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	13 changed	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 broke	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 broke	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 West	det
18	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 broke	nsubj
19	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 changed	conj
20	into	into	ADP	_	21 kingdoms	case
21	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 broke	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 became	nsubj
23	later	later	ADV	_	24 became	advmod
24	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 kingdoms	acl:relcl
25	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 became	xcomp
26	like	like	ADP	_	27 France	case
27	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 countries	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Spain	punct
29	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 France	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 England	cc
31	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 France	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fall	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not fall	past · do-support	Rome		day		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	change	past	life			for most people; slowly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	break	past	the West			into kingdoms result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into kingdom=Result
4	become	past	kingdoms	countries like France and Spain and England		later property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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.

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:15.

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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