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title: Roman soldiers and traders came from all over the empire, and some s… — Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads · tree and pragmatics
description: Roman soldiers and traders came from all over the empire, and some soldiers on Hadrian's Wall came from Iraq and North Africa. Who acts: Roman soldiers, soldiers. A sentence of the lesson «Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads, sentence 17

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Roman soldiers and traders came from all over the empire, and some soldiers on Hadrian's Wall came from Iraq and North Africa.

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**Who acts:** Roman soldiers, soldiers · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** empire, Iraq

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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 (Roman soldiers, soldiers), 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:17
# text = Roman soldiers and traders came from all over the empire, and some soldiers on Hadrian's Wall came from Iraq and North Africa.
# 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): no change
1	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Hadrian	Hadrian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	Wall	Wall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **come** | past | Roman soldiers and traders |  |  | the empire |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from empire=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | some soldiers on Hadrian's Wall |  |  | Iraq and North Africa |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from iraq=Initial\_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): no change. **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/).

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