Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 5

In the medieval system often called feudalism, the king gave land to lords, lords owed him soldiers, and peasants owed the lords work and part of their crops.

Who acts: medieval system, king, lords, peasants · What happens: call, give, owe · To what, where: feudalism, land, lords, medieval system, soldiers, king · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (medieval system, 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	_	4 system	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 system	det
3	medieval	medieval	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 system	amod
4	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obl
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 called	advmod
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 system	acl
7	feudalism	feudalism	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 system	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 lords	case
14	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gave	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 owed	punct
16	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 owed	nsubj
17	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gave	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 owed	iobj
19	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 owed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 owed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 owed	cc
22	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 owed	nsubj
23	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gave	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lords	det
25	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 owed	iobj
26	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 owed	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 part	cc
28	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 work	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 crops	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 crops	nmod:poss
31	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 part	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	participle	the medieval system not said here	feudalism			often property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	the king	land	lords	the medieval system		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Theme to lord=Recipient
3	owe	past	lords	soldiers	king			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal soldier=Theme
4	owe	past	peasants	work and part of lords's crops	the lords			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent lord=Goal work=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:5.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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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