--- title: News of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 took days to reach London, an… — Ideas on the move: numbers, paper, letters, ches… · tree and pragmatics description: News of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 took days to reach London, and news of Lincoln's death in 1865 took about 12 days to reach Europe; after the Atlantic telegraph cable of 1866 news crossed in minutes. Who acts: News, Lincoln. 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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 (News, Lincoln), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.lesson:11 # text = News of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 took days to reach London, and news of Lincoln's death in 1865 took about 12 days to reach Europe; after the Atlantic telegraph cable of 1866 news crossed in minutes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 News news NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Battle battle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Waterloo waterloo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 1815 1815 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 9 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 13 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 Lincoln Lincoln PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 1865 1865 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl 23 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 29 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:iobj 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 after after ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 Atlantic Atlantic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 34 telegraph telegraph NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 cable cable NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 1866 1866 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nmod _ _ 38 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 crossed cross VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | News of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 | | | | day | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive | News of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 *not said here* | London | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent london=Theme | | 3 | **take** | past | news of Lincoln's death in 1865 | | | | day | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **reach** | to-infinitive | news of Lincoln's death in 1865 *not said here* | Europe | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent europe=Theme | | 5 | **cross** | past | news | | | | after the Atlantic telegraph cable of 1866; minute | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **die** | | Lincoln | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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:075-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news.lesson:11`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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