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# Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads, sentence 10

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Legionaries marched about 30 kilometres a day carrying their kit, built a fortified camp every night and served for 25 years; at the end they got land or money, and many settled in the provinces, the lands of the empire outside Italy.

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**Who acts:** Legionaries, many · **What happens:** march, carry, build, fortify, serve, get · **To what, where:** 30 kilometres, kit, fortified camp, land, end, provinces

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Legionaries, many), 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:10
# text = Legionaries marched about 30 kilometres a day carrying their kit, built a fortified camp every night and served for 25 years; at the end they got land or money, and many settled in the provinces, the lands of the empire outside Italy.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Legionaries	legionary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	kit	kit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	fortified	fortify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl:unmarked
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj
29	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	nsubj	_	_
35	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:conj
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **march** | past | Legionaries | 30 kilometres |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund | Legionaries *not said here* | Legionaries's kit |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kit=Theme |
| 3 | **build** | past | Legionaries *not said here* | a fortified camp |  |  | night |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset camp=Product |
| 4 | **fortify** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **serve** | past | Legionaries *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **get** | past | Legionaries *= legionary* | land or money |  |  | at the end |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent land=Theme at end=Asset |
| 7 | **settle** | past | many |  |  | the provinces |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in province=Location |

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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.

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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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.

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