Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 0

In medieval Europe land was power: the king gave land to lords, the lords promised him soldiers, and peasants farmed the lords' land in return for protection.

Who acts: land, king, lords, peasants · What happens: be, give, promise, farm · To what, where: power, medieval Europe, land, lords, soldiers, king

This is a sentence of the lesson «Castles, knights and cathedrals» 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 (land, king, lords, peasants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 Europe	case
2	medieval	medieval	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Europe	amod
3	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 power	obl
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 power	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 power	cop
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 farmed	parataxis
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 power	parataxis
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 lords	case
13	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gave	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 promised	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lords	det
16	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 promised	nsubj
17	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gave	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 promised	iobj
19	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 promised	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 farmed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 peasants	cc
22	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 farmed	nsubj
23	farmed	farm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lords	det
25	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 land	nmod:poss
26	'	's	PART	_	25 lords	case
27	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 farmed	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 return	case
29	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 farmed	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 protection	case
31	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 return	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 power	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	land	power		medieval Europe	tree rules
2	give	past	the king	land	lords		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Theme to lord=Recipient
3	promise speech: promise	past	the lords	soldiers	king		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal soldier=Theme
4	farm	past	peasants	the lords's land		return for protection	vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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, 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:021-castles-knights-and-cathedrals.lesson:0.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

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