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title: Many people in Rome were enslaved, captured in war or born to slaves… — Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christia… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many people in Rome were enslaved, captured in war or born to slaves, and worked in houses, fields, mines and workshops; some were freed, and Spartacus led a huge slave revolt. Who acts: Spartacus. A sentence of the lesson «Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity» of the history course 
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# Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity, sentence 18

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Many people in Rome were enslaved, captured in war or born to slaves, and worked in houses, fields, mines and workshops; some were freed, and Spartacus led a huge slave revolt.

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**Who acts:** Spartacus · **What happens:** enslave, capture, bear, work, free, lead · **To what, where:** Many people, war, some, huge slave revolt

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity» 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 (Spartacus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:015-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity.lesson:18
# text = Many people in Rome were enslaved, captured in war or born to slaves, and worked in houses, fields, mines and workshops; some were freed, and Spartacus led a huge slave revolt.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 015-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	enslaved	enslave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	workshops	workshop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	freed	free	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	Spartacus	Spartacus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	revolt	revolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enslave** | past · passive |  | Many people in Rome |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **capture** | participle |  |  |  | war |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to slaves | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **work** | past |  |  |  |  |  | in houses and fields and mines and workshops | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in house=Theme |
| 5 | **free** | past · passive |  | some |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |
| 6 | **lead** | past | Spartacus | a huge slave revolt |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revolt=Theme |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×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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