--- title: At its biggest, about 1,900 years ago, the Roman Empire stretched fr… — Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads · tree and pragmatics description: At its biggest, about 1,900 years ago, the Roman Empire stretched from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to Syria, all around the Mediterranean, with many peoples living under one law and one money. Who acts: Roman Empire, many peoples. 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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 (Roman Empire, many peoples), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:014-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads.lesson:0 # text = At its biggest, about 1,900 years ago, the Roman Empire stretched from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to Syria, all around the Mediterranean, with many peoples living under one law and one money. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 014-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 1,900 1,900 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl:unmarked 8 ago ago ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Roman roman ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Syria Syria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 all all ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 around around ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Mediterranean Mediterranean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 32 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 33 under under ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 13 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 | **stretch** | past | the Roman Empire | | Egypt and Spain to Syria and the Mediterranean and many peoples | its biggest | | from Britain; ago *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from britain=Location | | 2 | **live** | gerund | many peoples *not said here* | | | one law and one money | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under law=Location | 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:014-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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. 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