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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Romans, twin brothers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:013-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic.lesson:0 # text = Romans told a legend that their city was founded in 753 BC by twin brothers, Romulus and Remus, who as babies were saved and fed by a she-wolf. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 013-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2 1 Romans Roman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 founded found VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 753 753 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 12 BC BC NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:unmarked _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 twin twin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl:agent _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 Romulus Romulus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 Remus Remus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 24 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 saved save VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl:relcl 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 she she NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 32 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Romans | a legend | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent legend=Recipient | | 2 | **found** | past · passive | twin brothers and Romulus and Remus | Romans's city | | 753 BC | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 3 | **save** | past · passive | | twin brothers and Romulus and Remus | | | | as babies | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **feed** | participle | | | | | | by a she wolf | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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