--- title: By 1908 most prisoners were held in purpose-built prisons with long… — Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the… · tree and pragmatics description: By 1908 most prisoners were held in purpose-built prisons with long rows of small cells, not in castle dungeons; prison food was plain, like bread, porridge and potatoes. Who acts: prison food. 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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 (prison food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson:15 # text = By 1908 most prisoners were held in purpose-built prisons with long rows of small cells, not in castle dungeons; prison food was plain, like bread, porridge and potatoes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.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 ×2 1 By by ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1908 1908 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 3 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 prisoners prisoner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 prisons prison NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 dungeons dungeon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 porridge porridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:appos 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 potatoes potato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past · passive | | most prisoners | | built prisons with long rows of small cells and castle dungeons | | by 1908 | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme by 1908=Location | | 2 | **build** | participle | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **is** | past | prison food | | | | | like bread and porridge and potatoes; plain *property* | tree rules | 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:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson:15`. **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 ×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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