--- title: Archaeology tells a plainer story: villages on seven hills by the ri… — Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic · tree and pragmatics description: Archaeology tells a plainer story: villages on seven hills by the river Tiber grew together into a town. Who acts: Archaeology, villages. 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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 (Archaeology, villages), 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:1 # text = Archaeology tells a plainer story: villages on seven hills by the river Tiber grew together into a town. # 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 ×3 1 Archaeology archaeology NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 plainer plain ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 villages village NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 13 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound 14 Tiber Tiber PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 appos _ _ 16 together together ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Archaeology | a plainer story | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 2 | **grow** | past | villages on seven hills the river | | | | | into a town *result*; together *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into town=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](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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:013-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×3. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Rome: from a town on seven hills to a…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic/0/) - next →: [Rome: from a town on seven hills to a…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic/)