The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages, sentence 14
In 1381 English peasants angry about taxes and unfair laws marched on London in the Peasants' Revolt; it was crushed, but lords never again tried to tax them the same way.
Who acts: 1381 English peasants, lords, Peasants · What happens: march, crush, try, tax, revolt · To what, where: London, Revolt, peasants
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» 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 (1381 English peasants, 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 peasants | case |
| 2 | 1381 | 1381 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 peasants | nummod |
| 3 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 peasants | amod |
| 4 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 marched | nsubj |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 peasants | amod |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 taxes | case |
| 7 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 angry | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 laws | cc |
| 9 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 laws | amod |
| 10 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 taxes | conj |
| 11 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 London | case |
| 13 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 marched | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Revolt | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Peasants | det |
| 16 | Peasants | peasant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 Revolt | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 16 Peasants | case |
| 18 | Revolt | revolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 marched | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 crushed | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 crushed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 crushed | aux:pass |
| 22 | crushed | crush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 marched | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 tried | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 tried | cc |
| 25 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 tried | nsubj |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 again | advmod |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 tried | advmod |
| 28 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 marched | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 tax | mark |
| 30 | tax | tax | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 tried | xcomp |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 tax | obj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 way | det |
| 33 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 way | amod |
| 34 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tax | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | past | 1381 English peasants | London | in the Peasants's Revolt | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on london=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | crush | past · passive | Revolt | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | try | past | lords | again | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | tax not said to happen | to-infinitive | lords not said here | peasants = peasant | the same way obl | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 5 | revolt | the Peasants | nom revolt «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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.
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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 ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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