--- title: The Romans wrote their laws on twelve tablets displayed in the forum… — Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic · tree and pragmatics description: The Romans wrote their laws on twelve tablets displayed in the forum, and many countries' laws today are based on Roman law. Who acts: Romans. 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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), 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:15 # text = The Romans wrote their laws on twelve tablets displayed in the forum, and many countries' laws today are based on Roman law. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Romans Roman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 3 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 tablets tablet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 displayed display VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 forum forum NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 ' 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl:unmarked 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 based base VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 Roman roman ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 24 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | past | the Romans | Romans's laws | | twelve tablets | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent law=Theme on tablet=Destination | | 2 | **display** | participle | | twelve tablets *not said here* | | the forum | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **base** | present · passive | | many countries's laws | | Roman law | today | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on law=Source | 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:15`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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. 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