--- title: In 1381 English peasants angry about taxes and unfair laws marched o… — The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages · tree and pragmatics description: In 1381 English peasants angry about taxes and unfair laws marched on London in the Peasants' Revolt; it was crushed, but lords never again tried to tax them the same way. Who acts: 1381 English peasants, 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 (1381 English peasants, lords, Peasants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:024-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages.lesson:14 # text = In 1381 English peasants angry about taxes and unfair laws marched on London in the Peasants' Revolt; it was crushed, but lords never again tried to tax them the same way. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 024-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 1381 1381 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 peasants peasant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 5 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 taxes tax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 11 marched march VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det 16 Peasants peasant PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 18 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 17 ' 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 Revolt revolt NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 crushed crush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 lords lord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 again again ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 tax tax VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . 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 | **march** | past | 1381 English peasants | | | London | | in the Peasants's Revolt | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on london=Trajectory | | 2 | **crush** | past · passive | | Revolt | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **try** | past | lords | | | | again | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **tax** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | lords *not said here* | peasants *= peasant* | | | | the same way *obl* | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 5 | **revolt** | | the Peasants | | | | | | nom revolt «act intransitive»: 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](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. 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