--- title: In 1215 English barons forced King John to accept Magna Carta, which… — Britain and Ireland: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: In 1215 English barons forced King John to accept Magna Carta, which said that even the king must obey the law. Who acts: English barons, King John, Magna, king. 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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 (English barons, King John, Magna, king), 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:8 # text = In 1215 English barons forced King John to accept Magna Carta, which said that even the king must obey the law. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1215 1215 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 3 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 barons baron NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 forced force VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 7 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 accept accept VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 10 Magna Magna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 Carta Carta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 16 even even ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 obey obey VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14: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 | **force** | past | English barons | King John | | 1215 | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent john=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **accept** | to-infinitive | King John *not said here* | Magna | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magna=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Magna | | | | | | 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 | 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:8`. **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. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/7/) - next →: [Britain and Ireland: a short story, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/)