--- title: Rich old families were patricians and ordinary citizens were plebeia… — Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic · tree and pragmatics description: Rich old families were patricians and ordinary citizens were plebeians; the plebeians went on strike by leaving the city until they won more rights. Who acts: Rich old families, plebeians. 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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 (Rich old families, plebeians), 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:14 # text = Rich old families were patricians and ordinary citizens were plebeians; the plebeians went on strike by leaving the city until they won more rights. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 5 patricians patrician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 7 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 citizens citizen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 plebeians plebeian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 plebeians plebeian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 strike strike NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 by by SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 until until SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advcl 24 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 25 rights right NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Rich old families | plebeians | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | past | the plebeians | | | strike | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on strike=Location | | 3 | **leave** | gerund | the plebeians *not said here* | the city | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme | | 4 | **win** | past | plebeians *= plebeian* | more rights | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Eventuality | 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:14`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic/13/) - next →: [Rome: from a town on seven hills to a…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/13-rome-from-seven-hills-to-a-republic/)