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title: In 410 the Visigoths captured and looted Rome itself, the first time… — Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us · tree and pragmatics
description: In 410 the Visigoths captured and looted Rome itself, the first time an enemy had taken the city in about 800 years. Who acts: Visigoths, enemy. A sentence of the lesson «Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us, sentence 12

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In 410 the Visigoths captured and looted Rome itself, the first time an enemy had taken the city in about 800 years.

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**Who acts:** Visigoths, enemy · **What happens:** capture, loot, take · **To what, where:** 410, Rome, city

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us» 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 (Visigoths, enemy), 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:12
# text = In 410 the Visigoths captured and looted Rome itself, the first time an enemy had taken the city in about 800 years.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	410	410	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Visigoths	visigoth	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
5	captured	capture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	looted	loot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	800	800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** | past | the Visigoths |  |  | 410 |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **loot** | past | the Visigoths *not said here* | Rome  empire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past · perfect | a enemy | the city |  |  | time; year |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=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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**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:016-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us.lesson:12`.

**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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