The King, the courts and the rules above the rules, sentence 7
At the King's Speech, which opens Parliament, the King reads out the government's plans, written by the government, not by him.
Who acts: Speech, King, government · What happens: open, read out, write, plan · To what, where: Parliament, plans, Speech
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 (Speech, King, government), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 Speech | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Speech | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 King | case |
| 5 | Speech | speech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 reads | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 opens | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 opens | nsubj |
| 8 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Speech | acl:relcl |
| 9 | Parliament | parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 opens | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Speech | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 reads | nsubj |
| 13 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 reads | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 government | det |
| 16 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 plans | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 government | case |
| 18 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 reads | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 written | punct |
| 20 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 plans | acl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 government | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 government | det |
| 23 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 written | obl:agent |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 him | punct |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 him | advmod |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 government | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 reads | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | the King's Speech | Parliament | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location parliament=Theme | ||||
| 2 | read out | present | the King | the government's plans | the King's Speech | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent plan=Theme at speech=Value | |||
| 3 | write | participle | the government's plans not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | plan | the government | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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:7.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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