--- title: In the medieval system often called feudalism, the king gave land to… — Castles, knights and cathedrals · tree and pragmatics description: In the medieval system often called feudalism, the king gave land to lords, lords owed him soldiers, and peasants owed the lords work and part of their crops. Who acts: medieval system, 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 (medieval system, 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:5 # text = In the medieval system often called feudalism, the king gave land to lords, lords owed him soldiers, and peasants owed the lords work and part of their crops. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 medieval medieval ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 7 feudalism feudalism NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 xcomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 lords lord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 lords lord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 owed owe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj 19 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 peasants peasant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 owed owe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 lords lord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 iobj _ _ 26 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 crops crop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | the medieval system *not said here* | feudalism | | | | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **give** | past | the king | land | lords | the medieval system | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Theme to lord=Recipient | | 3 | **owe** | past | lords | soldiers | king | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal soldier=Theme | | 4 | **owe** | past | peasants | work and part of lords's crops | the lords | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent lord=Goal work=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: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): R6-punct-agree ×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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/4/) - next →: [Castles, knights and cathedrals, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/)