Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies, sentence 11
In 1215 English barons forced King John to agree to Magna Carta; it mainly protected barons and the Church, but it set the idea that the king must follow the law.
Who acts: English barons, John, reason, king · What happens: force, agree, protect, set, follow · To what, where: John, 1215, Magna, barons, idea, law
This is a sentence of the lesson «Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies» 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, John, reason, 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 | nmod:desc |
| 7 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 forced | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 agree | mark |
| 9 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 forced | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Magna | case |
| 11 | Magna | Magna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 agree | obl |
| 12 | Carta | Carta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Magna | flat |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 forced | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 protected | nsubj |
| 15 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 16 protected | advmod |
| 16 | protected | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forced | parataxis |
| 17 | barons | baron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 protected | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Church | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Church | det |
| 20 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 barons | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 set | cc |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 set | nsubj |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 protected | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 idea | det |
| 26 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | obj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 follow | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 king | det |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 follow | nsubj |
| 30 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 follow | aux |
| 31 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 idea | acl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 law | det |
| 33 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 follow | obj |
| 34 | . | . | 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 | John King | 1215 | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent john=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | to-infinitive | John King not said here | Magna | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | protect | past | reason | barons and the Church | mainly property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baron=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | set | past | reason | the idea | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient idea=Result | ||||
| 5 | follow | must | the king | the law | vn chase-51.6 «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:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:11.
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 ×1, 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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