Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 14

Some castles really were prisons: the Tower of London held famous prisoners for hundreds of years, and Lancaster Castle was still used as a prison until 2011.

Who acts: castles, Tower · What happens: be, hold, use · To what, where: prisons, famous prisoners, Lancaster Castle

This is a sentence of the lesson «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» 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 (castles, Tower), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 castles	det
2	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 prisons	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 prisons	advmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prisons	cop
5	prisons	prison	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 prisons	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Tower	det
8	Tower	Tower	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 held	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 London	case
10	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Tower	nmod
11	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prisons	parataxis
12	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 prisoners	amod
13	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 held	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 hundreds	case
15	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 held	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 years	case
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hundreds	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 used	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 used	cc
20	Lancaster	lancaster	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Castle	compound
21	Castle	castle	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 used	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 used	aux:pass
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 used	advmod
24	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 held	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 prison	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 prison	det
27	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 used	obl
28	until	until	ADP	_	29 2011	case
29	2011	2011	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 used	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 prisons	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	some castles	prisons			tree rules
2	hold	past	the Tower of London	famous prisoners		for hundreds of years	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Theme
3	use	past · passive		Lancaster Castle	until 2011; still	as a prison	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as prison=Attribute

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:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson:14.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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