Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us, sentence 8

Constantine became the first Christian emperor, in 313 allowed Christians to worship freely, and founded a new capital, Constantinople, today's Istanbul.

Who acts: Constantine, Christians · What happens: become, allow, worship, found · To what, where: first Christian emperor, Christians, 313, new capital

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 (Constantine, Christians), 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	Constantine	Constantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 emperor	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 emperor	amod
5	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 emperor	amod
6	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 allowed	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 313	case
9	313	313	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 allowed	obl
10	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	conj
11	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 allowed	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 worship	mark
13	worship	worship	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 allowed	xcomp
14	freely	freely	ADV	_	13 worship	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 founded	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 founded	cc
17	founded	found	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 allowed	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 capital	det
19	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 capital	amod
20	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 founded	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Constantinople	punct
22	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 capital	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Constantinople	punct
24	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Istanbul	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 today	case
26	Istanbul	Istanbul	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Constantinople	appos
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 became	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	become	past	Constantine	the first Christian emperor			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	allow	past	Constantine not said here	Christians	313		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer christian=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	worship not said to happen	to-infinitive	Christians not said here			freely property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	found	past	Constantine not said here	a new capital			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=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:8.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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