Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time, sentence 10
In medieval Europe, trial by ordeal asked God to show the truth, for example by checking if a burn healed; in 1215 the Church told priests to stop taking part, and it faded away.
Who acts: trial, burn, Church, ordeal · What happens: ask, show, check, heal, tell, stop · To what, where: God, medieval Europe, truth, priests, 1215, part · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» 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 (trial, burn, Church, ordeal), 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 | _ | 3 Europe | case |
| 2 | medieval | medieval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Europe | amod |
| 3 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Europe | punct |
| 5 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 ordeal | case |
| 7 | ordeal | ordeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trial | nmod |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 show | mark |
| 11 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 truth | det |
| 13 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 show | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 example | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 example | case |
| 16 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 show | obl |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 checking | mark |
| 18 | checking | check | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 show | advcl |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 healed | mark |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 burn | det |
| 21 | burn | burn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 healed | nsubj |
| 22 | healed | heal | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 checking | advcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 1215 | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 1215 | case |
| 25 | 1215 | 1215 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 told | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Church | det |
| 27 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 told | nsubj |
| 28 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 29 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 told | iobj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 stop | mark |
| 31 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 told | xcomp |
| 32 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 stop | xcomp |
| 33 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 taking | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 faded | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 faded | cc |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 faded | nsubj |
| 37 | faded | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 told | parataxis |
| 38 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 faded | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | trial by ordeal | God | medieval Europe | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent god=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | show not said to happen | to-infinitive | trial by ordeal not said here | the truth | for example | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | |||
| 3 | check | gerund | trial by ordeal not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | heal a condition, not said to happen | past | a burn | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | the Church | priests | 1215 | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent priest=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 6 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Church not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | take | gerund | the Church not said here | part | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 8 | fade away | past | Church | away property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 9 | try | ordeal | nom trial «act transitive»: by=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): R7-rel-agree ×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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