Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 15

By 1908 most prisoners were held in purpose-built prisons with long rows of small cells, not in castle dungeons; prison food was plain, like bread, porridge and potatoes.

Who acts: prison food · What happens: hold, build, be · To what, where: most prisoners, built prisons

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 (prison food), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 1908	case
2	1908	1908	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 held	obl
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 prisoners	amod
4	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 held	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 held	aux:pass
6	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 prisons	case
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 built	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 purpose	punct
10	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 prisons	amod
11	prisons	prison	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 held	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 rows	case
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rows	amod
14	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 prisons	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 cells	case
16	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cells	amod
17	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rows	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dungeons	punct
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 dungeons	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 dungeons	case
21	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dungeons	compound
22	dungeons	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rows	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 plain	punct
24	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 food	compound
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 plain	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 plain	cop
27	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 held	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bread	punct
29	like	like	ADP	_	30 bread	case
30	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 plain	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 porridge	punct
32	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bread	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 potatoes	cc
34	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 porridge	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 held	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	past · passive		most prisoners	built prisons with long rows of small cells and castle dungeons	by 1908	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme by 1908=Location
2	build	participle					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	past	prison food			like bread and porridge and potatoes; plain property	tree rules

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:15.

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 ×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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