--- title: Legend says Rome was founded in 753 BC by the twins Romulus and Remu… — Rome: from a town on seven hills to a republic · tree and pragmatics description: Legend says Rome was founded in 753 BC by the twins Romulus and Remus, who were fed by a she-wolf, but archaeology shows Rome grew from small villages on hills by the river Tiber. Who acts: Legend, twins, she wolf, archaeology. 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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 (Legend, twins, she wolf, archaeology), 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:9 # text = Legend says Rome was founded in 753 BC by the twins Romulus and Remus, who were fed by a she-wolf, but archaeology shows Rome grew from small villages on hills by the river Tiber. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 founded found VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 753 753 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 BC BC NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 twins twin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:agent _ _ 12 Romulus Romulus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 Remus Remus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl:relcl 19 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 compound _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 archaeology archaeology NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 28 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 villages village NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 35 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:det 37 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:compound 38 Tiber Tiber PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod 39 . . 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Legend | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **found** | past · passive | the twins | Rome | | 753 BC | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 3 | **feed** | past · passive | a she wolf | the twins | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | | 4 | **show** | present | archaeology | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **grow** | past | Rome | | | | | from small villages on hills the river | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from village=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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