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title: Attila led the Huns, horse-riding warriors from the east, and attack… — Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us · tree and pragmatics
description: Attila led the Huns, horse-riding warriors from the east, and attacked both halves of the empire, and the Huns pushed other peoples into Roman lands. Who acts: Attila, Huns. 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 wit
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# Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us, sentence 13

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Attila led the Huns, horse-riding warriors from the east, and attacked both halves of the empire, and the Huns pushed other peoples into Roman lands.

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**Who acts:** Attila, Huns · **What happens:** lead, attack, push · **To what, where:** Huns, halves, other peoples, Roman lands

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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 (Attila, Huns), 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:13
# text = Attila led the Huns, horse-riding warriors from the east, and attacked both halves of the empire, and the Huns pushed other peoples into Roman lands.
# 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	Attila	Attila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Huns	Hun	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	halves	half	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Huns	Hun	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
25	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **lead** | past | Attila | the Huns |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hun=Theme |
| 2 | **attack** | past | Attila *not said here* | both halves of the empire |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient |
| 3 | **push** | past | the Huns | other peoples |  | Roman lands |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme into land=Destination |

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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): 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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