--- title: What really happened: Magna Carta in 1215 mainly protected barons an… — Who decides: kings, councils, republics and demo… · tree and pragmatics description: What really happened: Magna Carta in 1215 mainly protected barons and the Church, but it set the idea that even the king must follow the law, and later people used it to argue for wider rights. Who acts: Magna Carta, Church, king, people. 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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 (Magna Carta, Church, king, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:3 # text = What really happened: Magna Carta in 1215 mainly protected barons and the Church, but it set the idea that even the king must follow the law, and later people used it to argue for wider rights. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 really really ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 Magna Magna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Carta Carta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 1215 1215 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl 9 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 protected protect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 barons baron NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Church Church PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:WDT:PronType=Rel 22 even even ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 argue argue VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 wider wide ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 amod _ _ 39 rights right NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **protect** | past | Magna Carta in 1215 | barons and the Church | | | | mainly *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baron=Beneficiary | | 3 | **set** | past | Church | the idea | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient idea=Result | | 4 | **follow** | must | the king | the law | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme | | 5 | **use** | past | people | law | | | | late *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | for wider rights | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: 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:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:3`. **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 ×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. 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