Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 12

Chivalry was the code knights were meant to follow: be brave and loyal, protect the weak and honour God, though real knights often fell short of it.

Who acts: Chivalry, code, real knights · What happens: be, mean, follow, protect, honour, fall · To what, where: code, knights, weak, God

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 (Chivalry, code, real knights), 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	Chivalry	chivalry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 code	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 code	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 code	det
4	code	code	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 meant	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 meant	aux:pass
7	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 code	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 follow	mark
9	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 meant	xcomp
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 brave	punct
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 brave	cop
12	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 follow	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 loyal	cc
14	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 brave	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 protect	punct
16	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 follow	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 weak	det
18	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 protect	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 honour	cc
20	honour	honour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 protect	conj
21	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 honour	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 fell	mark
24	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 knights	amod
25	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fell	nsubj
26	often	often	ADV	_	27 fell	advmod
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 meant	advcl
28	short	short	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 fell	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 short	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 meant	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Chivalry	the code		tree rules
2	mean	past · passive	the code not said here	knights		tree rules
3	follow not said to happen	to-infinitive	the code not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	infinitive			brave property	tree rules
5	be					tree rules
6	protect	infinitive	the code not said here	the weak		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weak=Beneficiary
7	honour	infinitive	the code not said here	God		tree rules
8	fall	past	real knights		often property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:12.

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. 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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