--- title: But by 1908 most prisoners were kept in plain new prisons with rows… — Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the… · tree and pragmatics description: But by 1908 most prisoners were kept in plain new prisons with rows of cells, and magistrates could never give anyone twenty years. Who acts: magistrates. A sentence of the lesson «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» of the history course of Mova's pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/84-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Gaols, magistrates and old punishments…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/84-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908/) / 3 # Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 3 But by 1908 most prisoners were kept in plain new prisons with rows of cells, and magistrates could never give anyone twenty years. **Who acts:** magistrates · **What happens:** keep, not give · **To what, where:** most prisoners, plain new prisons, anyone This is a sentence of the lesson «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» 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 (magistrates), 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:3 # text = But by 1908 most prisoners were kept in plain new prisons with rows of cells, and magistrates could never give anyone twenty years. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 by by ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 1908 1908 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 4 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 5 prisoners prisoner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 prisons prison NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 magistrates magistrate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 22 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 21 iobj _ _ 23 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past · passive | | most prisoners | | plain new prisons with rows of cells | | by 1908 | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme by 1908=Location | | 2 | **not** **give** | could | magistrates | | anyone | | year | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme | 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:3`. **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): 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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