Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages, sentence 17
The famous iron maidens were probably put together in the 1800s, and there is no good evidence they were used in the Middle Ages.
Who acts: good evidence · What happens: put together, be, use · To what, where: famous iron maidens, 1800s, maidens, Middle Ages
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 (good evidence), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maidens | det |
| 2 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 maidens | amod |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 maidens | compound |
| 4 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 put | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | aux:pass |
| 6 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 7 put | advmod |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 put | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1800s | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 1800s | det |
| 11 | 1800s | 1800 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 7 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 is | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | conj |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 evidence | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 evidence | amod |
| 18 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 is | nsubj |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 used | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 used | aux:pass |
| 21 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 evidence | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Ages | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Ages | det |
| 24 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | _ | 25 Ages | compound |
| 25 | Ages | Age | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 used | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put together | past · passive | the famous iron maidens | the 1800s | probably, together property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 1800=Destination | |||
| 2 | be | present | no good evidence | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | use | past · passive | maidens = maiden | in the Middle Ages | vn eat-39.1 «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:myths:018-vikings-knights-and-the-middle-ages.lesson:17.
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): no change. 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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