--- title: The Senate was a council of experienced, mostly rich men who advised… — Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic · tree and pragmatics description: The Senate was a council of experienced, mostly rich men who advised the leaders and controlled money and foreign affairs; the USA and other countries still have a Senate. Who acts: Senate, experienced rich men, USA. 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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 (Senate, experienced rich men, USA), 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:13 # text = The Senate was a council of experienced, mostly rich men who advised the leaders and controlled money and foreign affairs; the USA and other countries still have a Senate. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Senate Senate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 7 experienced experienced ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 advised advise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 leaders leader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 controlled control VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 foreign foreign ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 affairs affair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 still still ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Senate Senate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the Senate | a council | | | | of experienced rich men | tree rules | | 2 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | experienced rich men | the leaders | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leader=Recipient | | 3 | **control** | past | experienced rich men *not said here* | money and foreign affairs | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | the USA and other countries | a Senate | | | still | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent senate=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:013-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic.lesson:13`. **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): no change. **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…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic/12/) - next →: [Rome: from a town on seven hills to a…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic/)