--- title: Royal and noble women ran estates, managed money and wrote letters,… — Vikings, knights and the Middle Ages · tree and pragmatics description: Royal and noble women ran estates, managed money and wrote letters, and some ruled, like Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Who acts: Royal women, some. 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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 (Royal women, some), 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:18 # text = Royal and noble women ran estates, managed money and wrote letters, and some ruled, like Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Eleanor of Aquitaine. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Royal Royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 noble noble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 4 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 estates estate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 managed manage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 12 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 16 ruled rule VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Æthelflæd Æthelflæd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Lady Lady PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:appos 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Mercians Mercian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 Eleanor Eleanor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:appos 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Aquitaine Aquitaine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **run** | past | Royal women | estates | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme estate=Trajectory | | 2 | **manage** | past | Royal women *not said here* | money | | | | | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | | 3 | **write** | past | Royal women *not said here* | letters | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | | 4 | **rule** | past | some | | | | | like Æthelflæd and Lady of the Mercians and Eleanor of Aquitaine | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:18`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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