--- title: Real empires needed roads, governors, taxes and soldiers to hold tog… — From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms,… · tree and pragmatics description: Real empires needed roads, governors, taxes and soldiers to hold together, and most broke up when ruling far-off lands got too hard. Who acts: Real empires, most, ruling. A sentence of the lesson «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» of the history course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/66-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [From band to nation: families, tribes,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/66-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries/) / 18 # From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries, sentence 18 Real empires needed roads, governors, taxes and soldiers to hold together, and most broke up when ruling far-off lands got too hard. **Who acts:** Real empires, most, ruling · **What happens:** need, hold together, break up, rule, get · **To what, where:** roads, off lands This is a sentence of the lesson «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» 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 (Real empires, most, ruling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:18 # text = Real empires needed roads, governors, taxes and soldiers to hold together, and most broke up when ruling far-off lands got too hard. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.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 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 empires empire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 governors governor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 taxes tax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ _ 13 together together ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJS:PronType=Ind 17 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 20 ruling rule VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 csubj _ _ 21 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 off off ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 25 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 26 too too ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 28 . . 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 | **need** | past | Real empires | roads and governors and taxes and soldiers | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot road=Theme | | 2 | **hold together** | to-infinitive | Real empires *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **break up** | past | most | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **rule** | gerund | | off lands | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | | 5 | **get** | past | ruling | | | | | hard *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:18`. **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. 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