--- title: In 1215 barons forced King John to accept Magna Carta, saying even t… — Britain and Ireland: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: In 1215 barons forced King John to accept Magna Carta, saying even the king must obey the law, and over centuries Parliament, not the king, came to make the laws. Who acts: barons, John, king, Parliament. 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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 (barons, John, king, Parliament), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.lesson:2 # text = In 1215 barons forced King John to accept Magna Carta, saying even the king must obey the law, and over centuries Parliament, not the king, came to make the laws. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1215 1215 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 3 barons baron NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 forced force VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:desc _ _ 6 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 accept accept VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 9 Magna Magna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 Carta Carta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 12 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 advcl _ _ 13 even even ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 obey obey VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 22 over over ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 24 Parliament parliament PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:conj 29 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 30 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **force** | past | barons | John King | | 1215 | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent john=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **accept** | to-infinitive | John King *not said here* | Magna | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magna=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | barons *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **obey** | must | the king | the law | | | | | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme | | 5 | **come** | past | Parliament | | | | century | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | Parliament *not said here* | the laws | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset law=Product | 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:037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.lesson:2`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Britain and Ireland: a short story, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/1/) - next →: [Britain and Ireland: a short story, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/)