Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time, sentence 6

From 1696 to 1851 England taxed houses by their windows, so people bricked some up, and you can still see the dark patches today.

Who acts: England, people, you · What happens: tax, brick up, see · To what, where: houses, 1696, some, dark patches

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 (England, people, you), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 1696	case
2	1696	1696	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 taxed	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 1851	case
4	1851	1851	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 1696	nmod
5	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 taxed	nsubj
6	taxed	tax	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bricked	advcl
7	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 taxed	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 windows	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 windows	nmod:poss
10	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 taxed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bricked	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 bricked	advmod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bricked	nsubj
14	bricked	brick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 bricked	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 bricked	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 see	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 see	advmod
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 bricked	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 patches	det
24	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 patches	amod
25	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 see	obj
26	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obl:unmarked
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 taxed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tax	past	England	houses	1696 to 1851		by houses's windows	vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Recipient
2	brick up	past	people	some				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Destination
3	see	can	you	the dark patches		still; today		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer patch=Stimulus

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:6.

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, 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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