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Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages, sentence 13

In the old story, King Canute set his throne by the sea to show his flattering courtiers (the people around him who praised him to please him) that even a king cannot command the tide.

Who acts: King, people · What happens: set, show, praise, please, not command · To what, where: throne, old story, flattering courtiers, king, tide · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages» of the myths 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 (King, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

casedetamodoblpunctnsubjflatnmod:possobjcasedetoblmarkadvclnmod:possamodobjpunctdetapposcasenmodnsubjacl:relclobjmarkxcompobjpunctmarkadvmoddetnsubjauxadvmodccompdetobjpunctrootInADPtheDEToldADJstoryNOUN,PUNCTKingPROPNCanutePROPNsetVERBhisPRONthroneNOUNbyADPtheDETseaNOUNtoPARTshowVERBhisPRONflatteringADJcourtiersNOUN(PUNCTtheDETpeopleNOUNaroundADPhimPRONwhoPRONpraisedVERBhimPRONtoPARTpleaseVERBhimPRON)PUNCTthatSCONJevenADVaDETkingNOUNcanAUXnotPARTcommandVERBtheDETtideNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_4 storycase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 storydet
3oldoldADJDegree=Pos4 storyamod
4storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing8 setobl
5,,PUNCT_4 storypunct
6KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing8 setnsubj
7CanuteCanutePROPNNumber=Sing6 Kingflat
8setsetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 thronenmod:poss
10thronethroneNOUNNumber=Sing8 setobj
11bybyADP_13 seacase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 seadet
13seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing8 setobl
14totoPART_15 showmark
15showshowVERBVerbForm=Inf8 setadvcl
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 courtiersnmod:poss
17flatteringflatterADJDegree=Pos18 courtiersamod
18courtierscourtierNOUNNumber=Plur15 showobj
19((PUNCT_21 peoplepunct
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 peopledet
21peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur18 courtiersappos
22aroundaroundADP_23 himcase
23himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 peoplenmod
24whowhoPRONPronType=Rel25 praisednsubj
25praisedpraiseVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 peopleacl:relcl
26himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 praisedobj
27totoPART_28 pleasemark
28pleasepleaseVERBVerbForm=Inf25 praisedxcomp
29himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 pleaseobj
30))PUNCT_21 peoplepunct
31thatthatSCONJ_37 commandmark
32evenevenADV_34 kingadvmod
33aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art34 kingdet
34kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing37 commandnsubj
35cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin37 commandaux
36notnotPARTPolarity=Neg37 commandadvmod
37commandcommandVERBVerbForm=Inf15 showccomp
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 tidedet
39tidetideNOUNNumber=Sing37 commandobj
40..PUNCT_8 setpunct

Pragmatics

form
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teacher
kept the draft
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1setpastKingking's thronethe old storyby the seavn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent throne=Theme in story=Destination
2showto-infinitiveKing not said hereking's flattering courtiersvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent courtier=Recipient clause=Topic
3praisepastthe people around kingkingvn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme clause=Attribute
4pleaseto-infinitivethe people around king not said herekingvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5not commandcana kingthe tidevn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent tide=Eventuality

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:myths:018-vikings-knights-and-the-middle-ages.lesson:13.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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