--- title: Chivalry was the code knights were meant to follow: be brave and loy… — Castles, knights and cathedrals · tree and pragmatics description: Chivalry was the code knights were meant to follow: be brave and loyal, protect the weak and honour God, though real knights often fell short of it. Who acts: Chivalry, code, real knights. 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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 (Chivalry, code, real knights), 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:12 # text = Chivalry was the code knights were meant to follow: be brave and loyal, protect the weak and honour God, though real knights often fell short of it. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Chivalry chivalry NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 code code NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 meant mean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 12 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 loyal loyal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 honour honour VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 21 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 though though SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 often often ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 28 short short ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - 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 | Chivalry | the code | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | past · passive | the code *not said here* | knights | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **follow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the code *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | infinitive | | | | | | brave *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **protect** | infinitive | the code *not said here* | the weak | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weak=Beneficiary | | 7 | **honour** | infinitive | the code *not said here* | God | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **fall** | past | real knights | | | | | often *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:12`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Castles, knights and cathedrals, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/11/) - next →: [Castles, knights and cathedrals, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/)