Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time, sentence 16
For centuries many soldiers were farmers who fought between harvests; full-time armies grew in the 1600s and 1700s, and France called up whole populations in 1793.
Who acts: many soldiers, farmers, time armies, France · What happens: be, fight, grow, call up · To what, where: farmers, 1600s, whole populations, 1793
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 (many soldiers, farmers, time armies, France), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 centuries | case |
| 2 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 farmers | obl |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 soldiers | amod |
| 4 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 farmers | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 farmers | cop |
| 6 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grew | conj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 fought | nsubj |
| 8 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 farmers | acl:relcl |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 harvests | case |
| 10 | harvests | harvest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fought | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 armies | punct |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 full | punct |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 armies | compound |
| 15 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grew | nsubj |
| 16 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 1600s | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 1600s | det |
| 19 | 1600s | 1600 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 16 grew | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 1700s | cc |
| 21 | 1700s | 1700 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 19 1600s | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 called | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 called | cc |
| 24 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 called | nsubj |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 grew | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 called | compound:prt |
| 27 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 populations | amod |
| 28 | populations | population | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 called | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 1793 | case |
| 30 | 1793 | 1793 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 called | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 farmers | 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 | is a | past | many soldiers | farmers | century | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fight | past | farmers | between harvests | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | time armies | the 1600s and 1700s | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1600=Location | ||||
| 4 | call up speech: assert | past | France | whole populations | 1793 | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent population=Recipient |
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:16.
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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