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title: In 1086 William the Conqueror had England's land, people and animals… — Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through… · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1086 William the Conqueror had England's land, people and animals counted in the Domesday Book, for taxes; «doom» then meant judgement, because the records were final. Who acts: William, doom, records. A sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» of the history 
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# Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time, sentence 19

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In 1086 William the Conqueror had England's land, people and animals counted in the Domesday Book, for taxes; «doom» then meant judgement, because the records were final.

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**Who acts:** William, doom, records · **What happens:** have, count, mean, be · **To what, where:** land, 1086, people, Domesday Book, judgement

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (William, doom, records), 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:19
# text = In 1086 William the Conqueror had England's land, people and animals counted in the Domesday Book, for taxes; «doom» then meant judgement, because the records were final.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1086	1086	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Conqueror	conqueror	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Domesday	Domesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	«	«	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	judgement	judgement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	records	record	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | William | England's land and people and animals |  | 1086 |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient |
| 2 | **count** | participle |  | people and animals *not said here* |  | the Domesday Book |  | for taxes | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **mean** | past | « doom *not said here* | judgement |  |  | then |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgement=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | the records |  |  |  |  | final *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:19`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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