--- title: Magistrates are ordinary local people, not trained lawyers, who judg… — Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the… · tree and pragmatics description: Magistrates are ordinary local people, not trained lawyers, who judge smaller cases in England and Wales; they still do this today, and they can only give short prison sentences of months, not years. Who acts: Magistrates, ordinary local people. 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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 (Magistrates, ordinary local people), 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:9 # text = Magistrates are ordinary local people, not trained lawyers, who judge smaller cases in England and Wales; they still do this today, and they can only give short prison sentences of months, not 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): R5-strong ×3 1 Magistrates magistrate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 lawyers lawyer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 judge judge VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 13 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 amod _ _ 14 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 still still ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl:relcl 31 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 sentences sentence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Magistrates | ordinary local people and trained lawyers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **train** | participle | | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **judge** | present | ordinary local people and trained lawyers | smaller cases | | England and Wales | | | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent case=Value | | 4 | **do** | present | magistrates *= magistrate* | this | | | still; today | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | | 5 | **give** | can | magistrates *= magistrate* | short prison sentences of months | | | year | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme | | 6 | **sentence** | | | months | | | | | nom sentence «communication transitive»: of=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. 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:9`. **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 ×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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