Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 3
But by 1908 most prisoners were kept in plain new prisons with rows of cells, and magistrates could never give anyone twenty years.
Who acts: magistrates · What happens: keep, not give · To what, where: most prisoners, plain new prisons, anyone
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 (magistrates), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 kept | cc |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 1908 | case |
| 3 | 1908 | 1908 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 kept | obl |
| 4 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 prisoners | amod |
| 5 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kept | aux:pass |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 prisons | case |
| 9 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 prisons | amod |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 prisons | amod |
| 11 | prisons | prison | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kept | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 rows | case |
| 13 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 prisons | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cells | case |
| 15 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rows | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 give | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 give | cc |
| 18 | magistrates | magistrate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 give | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 give | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 give | advmod |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 kept | conj |
| 22 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 give | iobj |
| 23 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 give | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · passive | most prisoners | plain new prisons with rows of cells | by 1908 | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme by 1908=Location | |||
| 2 | not give | could | magistrates | anyone | year | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme |
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:3.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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