--- title: In the old story, King Canute set his throne by the sea to show his… — Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages · tree and pragmatics description: In the old story, King Canute set his throne by the sea to show his flattering courtiers (the people around him who praised him to please him) that even a king cannot command the tide. Who acts: King, 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 (King, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:018-vikings-knights-and-the-middle-ages.lesson:13 # text = In the old story, King Canute set his throne by the sea to show his flattering courtiers (the people around him who praised him to please him) that even a king cannot command the tide. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 018-vikings-knights-and-the-middle-ages.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 Canute Canute PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 flattering flatter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 18 courtiers courtier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 appos _ _ 22 around around ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 praised praise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 please please VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advcl 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 32 even even ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 command command VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 tide tide NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | past | King | king's throne | | the old story | | by the sea | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent throne=Theme in story=Destination | | 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | king's flattering courtiers | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent courtier=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **praise** | past | the people around king | king | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **please** | to-infinitive | the people around king *not said here* | king | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | | 5 | **not** **command** | can | a king | the tide | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent tide=Eventuality | 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:myths:018-vikings-knights-and-the-middle-ages.lesson:13`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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