Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages, sentence 15

Historians do not know whether Robin Hood was one real person; the stories grew over centuries, and "giving to the poor" was added later.

Who acts: Historians, Robin Hood, stories · What happens: not know, be, grow, give, add · To what, where: one real person, poor · 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 (Historians, Robin Hood, stories), 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	Historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 know	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	11 person	mark
6	Robin	Robin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Hood	compound
7	Hood	Hood	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 person	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 person	cop
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 person	nummod
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 person	amod
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	ccomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 grew	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stories	det
14	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grew	nsubj
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	parataxis
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 centuries	case
17	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grew	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 added	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 added	cc
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 giving	punct
21	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 added	nsubj:pass
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 poor	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 poor	det
24	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 giving	obl
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 giving	punct
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 added	aux:pass
27	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 grew	conj
28	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 added	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	Historians					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	Robin Hood	one real person				tree rules
3	grow	past	the stories			century		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give in a quote	gerund			the poor			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to poor=Recipient
5	add speech: assert	past · passive					late property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»

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: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): R2-punct-next ×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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/18-vikings-knights-and-the-middle-ages/15/