--- title: What really happened: real empires needed roads, messengers, governo… — From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms,… · tree and pragmatics description: What really happened: real empires needed roads, messengers, governors, taxes and soldiers, many let local rulers stay, and most broke up when ruling got too hard. Who acts: real empires, many, local rulers, most. 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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 (real empires, many, local rulers, most), 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:4 # text = What really happened: real empires needed roads, messengers, governors, taxes and soldiers, many let local rulers stay, and most broke up when ruling 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 really really ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 empires empire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 acl _ _ 8 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 messengers messenger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 governors governor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 taxes tax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 nsubj _ _ 19 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:parataxis 20 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 rulers ruler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 26 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 ruling rule VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 nsubj _ _ 30 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 31 too too ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 33 . . 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 | **happen** | past | | real empires | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **need** | participle | real empires *not said here* | roads and messengers and governors and taxes and soldiers | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot road=Theme | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | many | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stay** | infinitive | local rulers | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **break up** | past | most | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **rule** | gerund | | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **get** | past | | | | | | 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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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. 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