Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time, sentence 12

In 1829 Robert Peel set up London's Metropolitan Police, and officers were nicknamed «bobbies» after him; before that, towns had watchmen.

Who acts: Robert Peel, towns · What happens: set up, nickname, have · To what, where: Metropolitan Police, 1829, officers, watchmen

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 (Robert Peel, towns), 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 1829	case
2	1829	1829	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 set	obl
3	Robert	Robert	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Peel	compound
4	Peel	Peel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 set	nsubj
5	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 set	compound:prt
7	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Police	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 London	case
9	Metropolitan	Metropolitan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Police	compound
10	Police	Police	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 set	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nicknamed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 nicknamed	cc
13	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 nicknamed	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 nicknamed	aux:pass
15	nicknamed	nickname	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 set	conj
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 bobbies	punct
17	bobbies	bobby	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 nicknamed	xcomp
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 bobbies	punct
19	after	after	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 nicknamed	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 that	punct
22	before	before	ADP	_	23 that	case
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 had	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
25	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 set	parataxis
27	watchmen	watchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 had	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 set	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	set up	past	Robert Peel	London's Metropolitan Police	1829		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent police=Theme in 1829=Destination
2	nickname	past · passive		officers		after Peel	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	have	past	towns	watchmen		before that	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watchman=Patient

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:068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.lesson:12.

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, 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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