Britain and Ireland: a short story, sentence 2

In 1215 barons forced King John to accept Magna Carta, saying even the king must obey the law, and over centuries Parliament, not the king, came to make the laws.

Who acts: barons, John, king, Parliament · What happens: force, accept, say, obey, come, make · To what, where: John, 1215, Magna, law, laws · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Britain and Ireland: a short story» 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 (barons, John, king, Parliament), 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	_	2 1215	case
2	1215	1215	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 forced	obl
3	barons	baron	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forced	nsubj
4	forced	force	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 John	nmod:desc
6	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 forced	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 accept	mark
8	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 forced	xcomp
9	Magna	Magna	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 accept	obj
10	Carta	Carta	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Magna	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 forced	punct
12	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 forced	advcl
13	even	even	ADV	_	15 king	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 obey	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 obey	aux
17	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 saying	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 law	det
19	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 obey	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 came	cc
22	over	over	ADP	_	23 centuries	case
23	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 came	obl
24	Parliament	parliament	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 came	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 king	punct
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 king	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Parliament	appos
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Parliament	punct
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forced	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 make	mark
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 came	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 laws	det
34	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 make	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forced	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	force	past	barons	John King	1215		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent john=Recipient clause=Topic
2	accept	to-infinitive	John King not said here	Magna			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magna=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund	barons not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	obey	must	the king	the law			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme
5	come	past	Parliament			century	tree rules
6	make	to-infinitive	Parliament not said here	the laws			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset law=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:037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.lesson:2.

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): 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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