--- title: Rome did not fall in a day: for most people life changed slowly, and… — Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us · tree and pragmatics description: Rome did not fall in a day: for most people life changed slowly, and the West broke into kingdoms that later became countries like France, Spain and England. Who acts: Rome, life, West, kingdoms. 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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 (Rome, life, West, kingdoms), 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:15 # text = Rome did not fall in a day: for most people life changed slowly, and the West broke into kingdoms that later became countries like France, Spain and England. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 12 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 14 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 kingdoms kingdom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 later later ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:aux:pass 24 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 xcomp _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **fall** | past · do-support | Rome | | | | day | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **change** | past | life | | | | | for most people; slowly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **break** | past | the West | | | | | into kingdoms *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into kingdom=Result | | 4 | **become** | past | kingdoms | countries like France and Spain and England | | | | later *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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. 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:15`. **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. **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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