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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, around the whole Mediterranean. Who acts: Roman Empire. A sentence of the lesson «Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads, sentence 6

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At its biggest, about 1,900 years ago, the Roman Empire stretched from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to Syria, around the whole Mediterranean.

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**Who acts:** Roman Empire · **What happens:** stretch · **To what, where:** Egypt, biggest

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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 Empire), 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:6
# text = At its biggest, about 1,900 years ago, the Roman Empire stretched from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to Syria, around the whole Mediterranean.
# 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): 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	_	_
8	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	13	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|Number=Sing|Person=3|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	around	around	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | past | the Roman Empire |  | Egypt and Spain to Syria | Empire's biggest |  | from Britain; around the whole Mediterranean; ago *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from britain=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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**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:6`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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