Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 13

Kings and queens could not do whatever they liked: they depended on nobles, money, armies, the church and laws such as Magna Carta of 1215, and some rulers were overthrown.

Who acts: Kings, teeth · What happens: not do, like, depend, overthrow · To what, where: whatever, church, rulers

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kings, queens and emperors» 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 (Kings, teeth), 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	Kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 queens	cc
3	queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Kings	conj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 do	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 liked	nsubj
9	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 whatever	acl:relcl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 depended	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 depended	nsubj
12	depended	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	parataxis
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 nobles	case
14	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 depended	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 money	punct
16	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nobles	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 armies	punct
18	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 nobles	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 church	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 church	det
21	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 depended	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 laws	cc
23	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 church	conj
24	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	27 Carta	case
25	as	as	ADP	_	24 such	fixed
26	Magna	Magna	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Carta	compound
27	Carta	Carta	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 laws	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 1215	case
29	1215	1215	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 Carta	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 overthrown	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 overthrown	cc
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 rulers	det
33	rulers	ruler	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 overthrown	nsubj:pass
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 overthrown	aux:pass
35	overthrown	overthrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 depended	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not do	could	Kings and queens	whatever		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality
2	like	past	teeth = tooth			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	depend	past	teeth = tooth	the church and laws such Magna Carta of 1215	on nobles and money and armies	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on noble=Theme
4	overthrow	past · passive		some rulers		tree rules

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:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.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): R5-strong ×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.

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