--- title: In 1712 Jonathan Swift called for rules to stop English changing; pe… — Is there one proper English? The big arguments · tree and pragmatics description: In 1712 Jonathan Swift called for rules to stop English changing; people have complained about young people "ruining" English for centuries. Who acts: Jonathan, people. A sentence of the lesson «Is there one proper English? The big arguments» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/5/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Is there one proper English? The big a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/) / 5 # Is there one proper English? The big arguments, sentence 5 In 1712 Jonathan Swift called for rules to stop English changing; people have complained about young people "ruining" English for centuries. **Who acts:** Jonathan, people · **What happens:** call, stop, change, complain, ruin · **To what, where:** 1712, English · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Is there one proper English? The big arguments» of the language 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 (Jonathan, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:020-is-there-one-proper-english.lesson:5 # text = In 1712 Jonathan Swift called for rules to stop English changing; people have complained about young people "ruining" English for centuries. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 020-is-there-one-proper-english.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 ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1712 1712 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 3 Jonathan Jonathan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Swift Swift PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 10 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 complained complain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 16 about about ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 ruining ruin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | Jonathan | | | 1712 | | for rules | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for rule=Recipient | | 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | Jonathan *not said here* | English | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **change** | gerund | Jonathan *not said here* | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **complain** *speech: other* | present · perfect | people | | | | | about young people | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about people=Topic | | 5 | **ruin** *in a quote* | gerund | people *not said here* | English | | | century | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=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:language:020-is-there-one-proper-english.lesson:5`. **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 ×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: [Is there one proper English? The big a…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/4/) - next →: [Is there one proper English? The big a…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/20-is-there-one-proper-english/)