Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 10

Early knights wore chain mail and later knights wore fitted plate armour, which was so well made that a knight could run and climb onto his horse by himself.

Who acts: Early knights, later knights, knight · What happens: wear, fit, make, run, climb · To what, where: chain mail, fitted plate armour

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 (Early knights, later knights, knight), 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	Early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knights	amod
2	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wore	nsubj
3	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mail	compound
5	mail	mail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wore	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wore	cc
7	later	late	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 knights	amod
8	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wore	nsubj
9	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wore	conj
10	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 armour	amod
11	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 armour	compound
12	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wore	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 made	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux:pass
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 well	advmod
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 made	advmod
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 armour	acl:relcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 run	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 knight	det
21	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 run	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 run	aux
23	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 made	advcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 climb	cc
25	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 run	conj
26	onto	onto	ADP	_	28 horse	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 horse	nmod:poss
28	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 climb	obl
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 himself	case
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 climb	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wore	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wear	past	Early knights	chain mail		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mail=Source
2	wear	past	later knights	fitted plate armour		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent armour=Source
3	fit	participle				vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	make	past · passive		fitted plate armour	well property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
5	run	could	a knight			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	climb	infinitive	a knight not said here		onto boy's horse; by boy	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto horse=Trajectory

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:10.

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. 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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