The King, the courts and the rules above the rules, sentence 5

Royal Assent is the King's agreement that turns a bill into a law; by custom he always gives it, and no monarch has refused for over 300 years.

Who acts: Royal Assent, agreement, Assent, monarch · What happens: be, turn, give, refuse · To what, where: agreement, bill, law

This is a sentence of the lesson «The King, the courts and the rules above the rules» of the politics 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 Assent, agreement, Assent, monarch), 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	2 Assent	amod
2	Assent	assent	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 agreement	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 agreement	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 agreement	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 King	case
7	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 turns	nsubj
9	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 agreement	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bill	det
11	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turns	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 law	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 law	det
14	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turns	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 gives	punct
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 custom	case
17	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gives	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gives	nsubj
19	always	always	ADV	_	20 gives	advmod
20	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 turns	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gives	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 refused	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 refused	cc
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 monarch	det
25	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 refused	nsubj
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 refused	aux
27	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 gives	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 years	case
29	over	over	ADV	_	30 300	advmod
30	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 years	nummod
31	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 refused	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 agreement	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Royal Assent	the King's agreement				tree rules
2	turn	present	the King's agreement	a bill	a law			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bill=Theme into law=Trajectory
3	give	present	Assent	bill			by custom; always property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	refuse	present · perfect	no monarch			year		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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:politics:007-the-king-the-courts-and-the-rules-above-the-rules.lesson:5.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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