Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us, sentence 9
By about 380 Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, and it later spread across Europe.
Who acts: Christianity, empire · What happens: become, spread · To what, where: official religion, Europe
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 (Christianity, empire), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 380 | case |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 380 | advmod |
| 3 | 380 | 380 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 became | obl |
| 4 | Christianity | Christianity | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 religion | det |
| 7 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 religion | amod |
| 8 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Empire | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Empire | det |
| 11 | Roman | Roman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Empire | compound |
| 12 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 religion | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spread | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spread | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spread | nsubj |
| 16 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 spread | advmod |
| 17 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 became | conj |
| 18 | across | across | ADP | _ | 19 Europe | case |
| 19 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 spread | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Christianity | the official religion of the Roman Empire | by 380 | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | spread | past | empire | Europe | late property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across europe=Destination |
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:9.
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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