Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 14
Julius Caesar was made dictator of Rome (a leader given total power for a time) but was never emperor; his adopted son Augustus became the first Roman emperor in 27 BC.
Who acts: leader, adopted son · What happens: make, give, not be, adopt, become · To what, where: Julius, total power, emperor, first Roman emperor, 27
This is a sentence of the lesson «Kings, queens and emperors» of the myths 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 (leader, adopted son), 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 | Julius | Julius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Caesar | Caesar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Julius | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | dictator | dictator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Rome | case |
| 7 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dictator | nmod |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 leader | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 leader | det |
| 10 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dictator | parataxis |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 leader | acl |
| 12 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 power | amod |
| 13 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | obl |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 leader | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 emperor | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 emperor | cop |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 emperor | advmod |
| 21 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 became | punct |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 24 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 son | amod |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 became | nsubj |
| 26 | Augustus | Augustus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 son | appos |
| 27 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 emperor | det |
| 29 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 31 emperor | amod |
| 30 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 emperor | amod |
| 31 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 became | xcomp |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 27 | case |
| 33 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 became | obl |
| 34 | BC | BC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 27 | nmod:unmarked |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | Julius | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | give | participle | a leader not said here | total power | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme | |||
| 3 | not is a | past | emperor | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | adopt | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | become | past | Julius's adopted son | the first Roman emperor | in 27 BC result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 27=Result |
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:myths:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-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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