Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us, sentence 4

In 410 the Visigoths looted Rome, and in 476 the last western emperor, a boy, was removed, but for most people life changed slowly.

Who acts: Visigoths, life · What happens: loot, remove, change · To what, where: Rome, 410, 476

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, life), 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 looted	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Visigoths	det
4	Visigoths	visigoth	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 looted	nsubj
5	looted	loot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 looted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 removed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 removed	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 476	case
10	476	476	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 removed	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 emperor	det
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 emperor	amod
13	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 emperor	amod
14	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 476	nmod:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 boy	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 boy	det
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 emperor	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 476	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 removed	aux:pass
20	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 looted	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 changed	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 changed	cc
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 people	case
24	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 people	amod
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 changed	obl
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 changed	nsubj
27	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looted	conj
28	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	27 changed	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 looted	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	loot	past	the Visigoths	Rome	410		tree rules
2	remove	past · passive	the Visigoths not said here		476 the last western emperor		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»
3	change	past	life			for most people; slowly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:4.

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 ×1, 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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