--- title: Historians do not know whether Robin Hood was one real person; the s… — Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages · tree and pragmatics description: Historians do not know whether Robin Hood was one real person; the stories grew over centuries, and "giving to the poor" was added later. Who acts: Historians, Robin Hood, stories. 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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 (Historians, Robin Hood, stories), 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:15 # text = Historians do not know whether Robin Hood was one real person; the stories grew over centuries, and "giving to the poor" was added later. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Historians historian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 6 Robin Robin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Hood Hood PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 10 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 16 over over ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=15:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obl _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 28 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | Historians | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | past | Robin Hood | one real person | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** | past | the stories | | | | century | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **give** *in a quote* | gerund | | | the poor | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to poor=Recipient | | 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | | | | | late *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» | 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:15`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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