--- title: The empire grew too big for one ruler and was split into a western h… — Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us · tree and pragmatics description: The empire grew too big for one ruler and was split into a western half ruled from Rome and an eastern half ruled from Constantinople. Who acts: empire. 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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 (empire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:016-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us.lesson:1 # text = The empire grew too big for one ruler and was split into a western half ruled from Rome and an eastern half ruled from Constantinople. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 016-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 empire empire NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 ruler ruler NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 split split VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 11 obl _ _ 16 ruled rule VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 eastern eastern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 15 conj _ _ 23 ruled rule VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Constantinople Constantinople PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | the empire | | | | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **split** | past · passive | the empire *not said here* | | | | | into a western half and a eastern half *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: into half=Result | | 3 | **rule** | participle | | a western half and a eastern half *not said here* | | Rome | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **rule** | participle | | a eastern half *not said here* | | Constantinople | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. 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