Britain and Ireland: a short story, sentence 8
In 1215 English barons forced King John to accept Magna Carta, which said that even the king must obey the law.
Who acts: English barons, King John, Magna, king · What happens: force, accept, say, obey · To what, where: King John, 1215, Magna, law · 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 (English barons, King John, Magna, king), 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 | 5 forced | obl |
| 3 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 barons | amod |
| 4 | barons | baron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 forced | nsubj |
| 5 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 John | flat |
| 7 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 forced | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 accept | mark |
| 9 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 forced | xcomp |
| 10 | Magna | Magna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 accept | obj |
| 11 | Carta | Carta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Magna | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Magna | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Magna | acl:relcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 obey | mark |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 king | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 obey | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 obey | aux |
| 20 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 law | det |
| 22 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 obey | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past | English barons | King John | 1215 | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent john=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | accept | to-infinitive | King John not said here | Magna | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magna=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Magna | 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 |
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: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. 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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