--- title: Meanwhile whole towns spent a hundred years or more building cathedr… — Castles, knights and cathedrals · tree and pragmatics description: Meanwhile whole towns spent a hundred years or more building cathedrals, whose stained-glass windows told Bible stories to people who could not read. Who acts: whole towns, glass windows, people. A sentence of the lesson «Castles, knights and cathedrals» of the history course of Mova's primary schoo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Castles, knights and cathedrals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/) / 4 # Castles, knights and cathedrals, sentence 4 Meanwhile whole towns spent a hundred years or more building cathedrals, whose stained-glass windows told Bible stories to people who could not read. **Who acts:** whole towns, glass windows, people · **What happens:** spend, stain, tell, not read · **To what, where:** more building cathedrals, Bible stories, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Castles, knights and cathedrals» of the history 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 (whole towns, glass windows, people), 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:4 # text = Meanwhile whole towns spent a hundred years or more building cathedrals, whose stained-glass windows told Bible stories to people who could not read. # 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 ×2 1 Meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 10 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 cathedrals cathedral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 17 nmod:poss _ _ 14 stained stain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:amod 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 19 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **spend** | past | whole towns | more building cathedrals | | | year | meanwhile *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cathedral=Asset | | 2 | **stain** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | glass windows | Bible stories | people | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to people=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **read** | could | people | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: 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](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:4`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Castles, knights and cathedrals, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/3/) - next →: [Castles, knights and cathedrals, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/)