--- title: In the Roman Republic citizens elected leaders for one year at a tim… — Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic · tree and pragmatics description: In the Roman Republic citizens elected leaders for one year at a time, and two consuls shared the top job so neither could become too powerful. Who acts: citizens, two consuls. 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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 (citizens, two consuls), 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:12 # text = In the Roman Republic citizens elected leaders for one year at a time, and two consuls shared the top job so neither could become too powerful. # 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 ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Roman Roman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Republic Republic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 citizens citizen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 elected elect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 leaders leader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 consuls consul NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 shared share VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 neither neither ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 26 too too ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **elect** | past | citizens | leaders | | the Roman Republic | year | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme | | 2 | **share** | past | two consuls | the top job | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **become** | could | two consuls *not said here* | | | | | neither, powerful *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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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