--- title: Julius Caesar was made dictator of Rome (a leader given total power… — Kings, queens and emperors · tree and pragmatics description: Julius Caesar was made dictator of Rome (a leader given total power for a time) but was never emperor; his adopted son Augustus became the first Roman emperor in 27 BC. Who acts: leader, adopted son. 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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 (leader, adopted son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson:14 # text = Julius Caesar was made dictator of Rome (a leader given total power for a time) but was never emperor; his adopted son Augustus became the first Roman emperor in 27 BC. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 019-kings-queens-and-emperors.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Julius Julius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 Caesar Caesar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 dictator dictator NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 11 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod:poss 24 adopted adopt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:amod 25 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:compound 26 Augustus Augustus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nsubj 27 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 31 amod _ _ 30 Roman roman ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 xcomp _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 27 27 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 obl _ _ 34 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:unmarked _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past · passive | | Julius | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **give** | participle | a leader *not said here* | total power | | | time | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme | | 3 | **not** **is a** | past | | emperor | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **adopt** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **become** | past | Julius's adopted son | the first Roman emperor | | | | in 27 BC *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 27=Result | 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:myths:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson:14`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Kings, queens and emperors, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/13/) - next →: [Kings, queens and emperors, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/)