--- title: In medieval Europe land was power: the king gave land to lords, the… — Castles, knights and cathedrals · tree and pragmatics description: In medieval Europe land was power: the king gave land to lords, the lords promised him soldiers, and peasants farmed the lords' land in return for protection. Who acts: land, king, lords, peasants. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land, king, lords, peasants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:021-castles-knights-and-cathedrals.lesson:0 # text = In medieval Europe land was power: the king gave land to lords, the lords promised him soldiers, and peasants farmed the lords' land in return for protection. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 021-castles-knights-and-cathedrals.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 medieval medieval ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 parataxis _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 11 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 lords lord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 lords lord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 peasants peasant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 farmed farm VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 lords lord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 ' 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 protection protection NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | land | power | | medieval Europe | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | past | the king | land | lords | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Theme to lord=Recipient | | 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the lords | soldiers | king | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal soldier=Theme | | 4 | **farm** | past | peasants | the lords's land | | return for protection | | | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:history:021-castles-knights-and-cathedrals.lesson:0`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings/20/) - next →: [Castles, knights and cathedrals, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/)