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title: In 410 the Visigoths looted Rome, and in 476 the last western empero… — Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us · tree and pragmatics
description: In 410 the Visigoths looted Rome, and in 476 the last western emperor, a boy, was removed, but for most people life changed slowly. Who acts: Visigoths, life. 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 dependenc
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# Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us, sentence 4

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In 410 the Visigoths looted Rome, and in 476 the last western emperor, a boy, was removed, but for most people life changed slowly.

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**Who acts:** Visigoths, life · **What happens:** loot, remove, change · **To what, where:** Rome, 410, 476

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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, life), 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:4
# text = In 410 the Visigoths looted Rome, and in 476 the last western emperor, a boy, was removed, but for most people life changed slowly.
# 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 ×1, 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	looted	loot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	476	476	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **loot** | past | the Visigoths | Rome |  | 410 |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remove** | past · passive | the Visigoths *not said here* |  |  | 476  the last western emperor |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **change** | past | life |  |  |  |  | for most people; slowly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:4`.

**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 ×1, 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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