--- title: After a civil war in the 1640s and later struggles, Parliament, not… — Britain and Ireland: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: After a civil war in the 1640s and later struggles, Parliament, not the king, made the laws, and today Britain has a monarch who reigns and an elected government that rules. Who acts: Britain, monarch, elected government. 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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 (Britain, monarch, elected government), 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:9 # text = After a civil war in the 1640s and later struggles, Parliament, not the king, made the laws, and today Britain has a monarch who reigns and an elected government that rules. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 After after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 civil civil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 1640s 1640 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 4 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 10 struggles struggle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Parliament parliament NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 18 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 24 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 monarch monarch NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 reigns reign VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 33 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 rules rule VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | | the laws | | | after a civil war in the 1640s and struggles and Parliament | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset law=Product | | 2 | **have** | present | Britain | a monarch | | | today | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monarch=Patient | | 3 | **reign** | present | a monarch | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **elect** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **rule** | present | a elected government | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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:037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.lesson:9`. **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: [Britain and Ireland: a short story, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/8/) - next →: [Britain and Ireland: a short story, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/)