Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 8

Attackers besieged castles for weeks or months with catapults and trebuchets, or tried to starve the defenders out, and cannons from the 1400s made castle walls far less useful.

Who acts: Attackers, cannons · What happens: besiege, try, starve out, make · To what, where: castles, defenders, castle walls

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 (Attackers, cannons), 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	Attackers	attacker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 besieged	nsubj
2	besieged	besiege	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 besieged	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 weeks	case
5	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 besieged	obl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 months	cc
7	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 weeks	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 catapults	case
9	catapults	catapult	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 besieged	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 trebuchets	cc
11	trebuchets	trebuchet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 catapults	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tried	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 tried	cc
14	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 besieged	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 starve	mark
16	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tried	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 defenders	det
18	defenders	defender	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 starve	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	16 starve	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 made	cc
22	cannons	cannon	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 made	nsubj
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 1400s	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 1400s	det
25	1400s	1400	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	22 cannons	nmod
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 besieged	conj
27	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 walls	compound
28	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 made	obj
29	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 less	advmod
30	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 useful	advmod
31	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 made	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 besieged	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	besiege	past	Attackers	castles	week	with catapults and trebuchets	tree rules
2	try	past	Attackers not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	starve out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Attackers not said here	the defenders			tree rules
4	make	past	cannons from the 1400s	castle walls		useful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wall=Product

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:8.

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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