Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 8

Nero could not have played the fiddle while Rome burned in the year 64, because the fiddle had not been invented; the Roman historian Tacitus says he was away at Antium, came back and opened shelters, though rumours said he sang about the fall of Troy.

Who acts: Nero, Rome, Roman historian, rumours · What happens: not play, burn, not invent, say, be, come back · To what, where: fiddle, Antium, shelters · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Nero, Rome, Roman historian, rumours), 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	Nero	Nero	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 played	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 played	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 played	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 played	aux
5	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fiddle	det
7	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	obj
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 burned	mark
9	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 burned	nsubj
10	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 played	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 year	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 burned	obl
14	64	64	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 year	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 invented	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 invented	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fiddle	det
18	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 invented	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 invented	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 invented	advmod
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 invented	aux:pass
22	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 played	advcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 says	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 historian	det
25	Roman	Roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 historian	amod
26	historian	historian	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 says	nsubj
27	Tacitus	Tacitus	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 historian	appos
28	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 played	parataxis
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 away	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 away	cop
31	away	away	ADV	_	28 says	ccomp
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 Antium	case
33	Antium	Antium	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 away	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 away	conj
36	back	back	ADV	_	35 came	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 opened	cc
38	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 came	conj
39	shelters	shelter	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 opened	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 said	punct
41	though	though	SCONJ	_	43 said	mark
42	rumours	rumour	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 said	nsubj
43	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 opened	conj
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 sang	nsubj
45	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 said	ccomp
46	about	about	ADP	_	48 fall	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 fall	det
48	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sang	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 Troy	case
50	Troy	Troy	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 fall	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 played	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not play	could · perfect	Nero	the fiddle				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Theme
2	burn	past	Rome			year		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	not invent	past · perfect · passive		the fiddle				vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
4	say speech: assert	present	the Roman historian					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Rome		Antium		away property	tree rules
6	come back	past	Rome not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	open	past	Rome not said here	shelters				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shelter=Theme
8	say speech: assert	past	rumours					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	sing speech: express	past	Rome				about the fall of Troy	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about fall=Location

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: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): 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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