--- title: For centuries many soldiers were farmers who fought between harvests… — Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through… · tree and pragmatics description: For centuries many soldiers were farmers who fought between harvests; full-time armies grew in the 1600s and 1700s, and France called up whole populations in 1793. Who acts: many soldiers, farmers, time armies, France. 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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 (many soldiers, farmers, time armies, France), 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:16 # text = For centuries many soldiers were farmers who fought between harvests; full-time armies grew in the 1600s and 1700s, and France called up whole populations in 1793. # 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 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 between between ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 harvests harvest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 armies army NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 1600s 1600 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 1700s 1700 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 populations population NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 1793 1793 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16: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 | **is a** | past | many soldiers | farmers | | | century | | tree rules | | 2 | **fight** | past | farmers | | | | | between harvests | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grow** | past | time armies | | | the 1600s and 1700s | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1600=Location | | 4 | **call up** *speech: assert* | past | France | whole populations | | 1793 | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent population=Recipient | 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:16`. **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. 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