Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages, sentence 18

Royal and noble women ran estates, managed money and wrote letters, and some ruled, like Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Who acts: Royal women, some · What happens: run, manage, write, rule · To what, where: estates, money, letters

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 (Royal women, some), 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	Royal	Royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 women	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 women	cc
3	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Royal	conj
4	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	estates	estate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ran	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 managed	punct
8	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 managed	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wrote	cc
11	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
12	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wrote	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ruled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ruled	cc
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 ruled	nsubj
16	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Æthelflæd	punct
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 Æthelflæd	case
19	Æthelflæd	Æthelflæd	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ruled	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Lady	punct
21	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Æthelflæd	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Mercians	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Mercians	det
24	Mercians	Mercian	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 Lady	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Eleanor	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Eleanor	cc
27	Eleanor	Eleanor	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Æthelflæd	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Aquitaine	case
29	Aquitaine	Aquitaine	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Eleanor	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run	past	Royal women	estates		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme estate=Trajectory
2	manage	past	Royal women not said here	money		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	write	past	Royal women not said here	letters		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
4	rule	past	some		like Æthelflæd and Lady of the Mercians and Eleanor of Aquitaine	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:18.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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