Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 7
The first castles were wooden towers on earth mounds; later castles were built of stone, with thick walls, towers, moats and drawbridges.
Who acts: first castles · What happens: be, build · To what, where: wooden towers, earth mounds, castles
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 (first castles), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 castles | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 castles | amod |
| 3 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 towers | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 towers | cop |
| 5 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 towers | amod |
| 6 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 mounds | case |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mounds | compound |
| 9 | mounds | mound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 towers | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 built | punct |
| 11 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 built | advmod |
| 12 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 built | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 built | aux:pass |
| 14 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 towers | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 stone | case |
| 16 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 built | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 walls | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 walls | case |
| 19 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 walls | amod |
| 20 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 built | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 towers | punct |
| 22 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 walls | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 moats | punct |
| 24 | moats | moat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 walls | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 drawbridges | cc |
| 26 | drawbridges | drawbridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 walls | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 towers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the first castles | wooden towers | earth mounds | tree rules | |||
| 2 | build | past · passive | castles | of stone; with thick walls and towers and moats and drawbridges; late property | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme with wall=Source |
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:7.
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 ×2. 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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