--- title: In 1829 Robert Peel set up London's Metropolitan Police, and officer… — Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through… · tree and pragmatics description: In 1829 Robert Peel set up London's Metropolitan Police, and officers were nicknamed «bobbies» after him; before that, towns had watchmen. Who acts: Robert Peel, towns. 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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 (Robert Peel, towns), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.lesson:12 # text = In 1829 Robert Peel set up London's Metropolitan Police, and officers were nicknamed «bobbies» after him; before that, towns had watchmen. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1829 1829 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 3 Robert Robert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Peel Peel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 Metropolitan Metropolitan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Police Police PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 officers officer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 nicknamed nickname VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 bobbies bobby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 after after ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 before before ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 27 watchmen watchman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set up** | past | Robert Peel | London's Metropolitan Police | | 1829 | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent police=Theme in 1829=Destination | | 2 | **nickname** | past · passive | | officers | | | after Peel | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **have** | past | towns | watchmen | | | before that | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watchman=Patient | 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:068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.lesson:12`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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