Britain and Ireland: a short story, sentence 9
After a civil war in the 1640s and later struggles, Parliament, not the king, made the laws, and today Britain has a monarch who reigns and an elected government that rules.
Who acts: Britain, monarch, elected government · What happens: make, have, reign, elect, rule · To what, where: laws, monarch
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 (Britain, monarch, elected government), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 war | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 war | det |
| 3 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 war | amod |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1640s | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 1640s | det |
| 7 | 1640s | 1640 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 4 war | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 struggles | cc |
| 9 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 struggles | advmod |
| 10 | struggles | struggle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 1640s | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Parliament | punct |
| 12 | Parliament | parliament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 1640s | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 king | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 king | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Parliament | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 war | punct |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 laws | det |
| 20 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 has | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 has | cc |
| 23 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 has | obl |
| 24 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 has | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 monarch | det |
| 27 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 has | obj |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 reigns | nsubj |
| 29 | reigns | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 monarch | acl:relcl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 government | cc |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 government | det |
| 32 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 government | amod |
| 33 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 has | conj |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 rules | nsubj |
| 35 | rules | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 government | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the laws | after a civil war in the 1640s and struggles and Parliament | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset law=Product | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Britain | a monarch | today | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monarch=Patient | |||
| 3 | reign | present | a monarch | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | elect | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | rule | present | a elected government | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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.
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:9.
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): R5-strong ×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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