--- title: St James' Park is the football ground in Newcastle; St James's Park… — The apostrophe war · tree and pragmatics description: St James' Park is the football ground in Newcastle; St James's Park is a royal park in London; for names, copy the official spelling. Who acts: Park. 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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 (Park), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:015-the-apostrophe-war.lesson:9 # text = St James' Park is the football ground in Newcastle; St James's Park is a royal park in London; for names, copy the official spelling. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 015-the-apostrophe-war.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 ×1 1 St St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 ' 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 Park Park PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Newcastle Newcastle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 12 St St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:desc _ _ 13 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 Park Park PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 parataxis _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 copy copy VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | James St's Park | the football ground | | Newcastle | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | James St's Park | a royal park | | London | | | tree rules | | 3 | **copy** | infinitive | | the official spelling | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=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:language:015-the-apostrophe-war.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): R7-rel-agree ×1. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The apostrophe war, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/8/) - next →: [The apostrophe war, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/)