Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 18
Paying a guard or helper to let a prisoner escape is bribery and is a crime; in the book the washerwoman takes gold coins and asks to be tied up so it looks as if she was attacked.
Who acts: prisoner, Paying, washerwoman, it · What happens: pay, let, escape, be, take, ask · To what, where: guard, prisoner, bribery, crime, gold coins, book
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 (prisoner, Paying, washerwoman, it), 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 | Paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 bribery | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 guard | det |
| 3 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Paying | obj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 helper | cc |
| 5 | helper | helper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guard | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 let | mark |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Paying | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 prisoner | det |
| 9 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obj |
| 10 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 bribery | cop |
| 12 | bribery | bribery | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 crime | cc |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 crime | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 crime | det |
| 16 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bribery | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 takes | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 book | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 book | det |
| 20 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 takes | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 washerwoman | det |
| 22 | washerwoman | washerwoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 takes | nsubj |
| 23 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 bribery | parataxis |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 coins | compound |
| 25 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 takes | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 asks | cc |
| 27 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 takes | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 tied | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 tied | aux:pass |
| 30 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 asks | xcomp |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 tied | compound:prt |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 looks | advmod |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 looks | nsubj |
| 34 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 asks | advcl |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 attacked | mark |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 attacked | mark |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 attacked | aux:pass |
| 39 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 looks | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 bribery | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | gerund | a guard or helper | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Asset | |||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | a prisoner | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | escape | infinitive | a prisoner not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | Paying | bribery and a crime | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | Paying not said here | a crime | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | take | present | the washerwoman | gold coins | the book | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent coin=Value in book=Location | |||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | present | the washerwoman not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | tie up not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the washerwoman not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» | |||||
| 9 | look | present | it | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 10 | attack | past · passive | washerwoman | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson:18.
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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