--- title: Paying a guard or helper to let a prisoner escape is bribery and is… — Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the… · tree and pragmatics description: Paying a guard or helper to let a prisoner escape is bribery and is a crime; in the book the washerwoman takes gold coins and asks to be tied up so it looks as if she was attacked. Who acts: prisoner, Paying, washerwoman, it. 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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 (prisoner, Paying, washerwoman, it), 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:18 # text = Paying a guard or helper to let a prisoner escape is bribery and is a crime; in the book the washerwoman takes gold coins and asks to be tied up so it looks as if she was attacked. # 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 Paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 helper helper NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 prisoner prisoner NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 bribery bribery NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 crime crime NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 washerwoman washerwoman NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:appos 23 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 24 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 25 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 xcomp _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 35 as as SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 if if SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 attacked attack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 advcl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | gerund | | a guard or helper | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Asset | | 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | | a prisoner | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **escape** | infinitive | a prisoner *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | Paying | bribery and a crime | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | Paying *not said here* | a crime | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **take** | present | the washerwoman | gold coins | | the book | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent coin=Value in book=Location | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the washerwoman *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **tie up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | the washerwoman *not said here* | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» | | 9 | **look** | present | it | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 10 | **attack** | past · passive | | washerwoman | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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. 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