Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 2

Long ago people really were locked in the stocks so neighbours could jeer and throw rotten food at them, and some castles really were used as gaols.

Who acts: neighbours · What happens: lock, jeer, throw, use · To what, where: people, stocks, rotten food, castles

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 (neighbours), 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 ago	advmod
2	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 locked	advmod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 locked	nsubj:pass
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 locked	advmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 locked	aux:pass
6	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 stocks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stocks	det
9	stocks	stock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 locked	obl
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 jeer	advmod
11	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 jeer	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 jeer	aux
13	jeer	jeer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 locked	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 throw	cc
15	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 jeer	conj
16	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 food	amod
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 throw	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 throw	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 used	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 used	cc
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 castles	det
23	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 used	nsubj:pass
24	really	really	ADV	_	26 used	advmod
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 used	aux:pass
26	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 locked	conj
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 gaols	case
28	gaols	gaol	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 used	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 locked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lock	past · passive		people	the stocks	ago property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	jeer	could	neighbours				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	throw	infinitive	neighbours not said here	rotten food		at neighbours = neighbour	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent food=Theme at they=Destination
4	use	past · passive		some castles		as gaols	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as gaol=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:2.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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