--- title: Kings and queens could not do whatever they liked: they depended on… — Kings, queens and emperors · tree and pragmatics description: Kings and queens could not do whatever they liked: they depended on nobles, money, armies, the church and laws such as Magna Carta of 1215, and some rulers were overthrown. Who acts: Kings, teeth. 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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 (Kings, teeth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson:13 # text = Kings and queens could not do whatever they liked: they depended on nobles, money, armies, the church and laws such as Magna Carta of 1215, and some rulers were overthrown. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 019-kings-queens-and-emperors.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 Kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 queens queen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 obj _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 liked like VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 depended depend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 13 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 nobles noble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 armies army NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 27 case _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 Magna Magna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Carta Carta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 1215 1215 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 33 det _ _ 33 rulers ruler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 overthrown overthrow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **not** **do** | could | Kings and queens | whatever | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality | | 2 | **like** | past | teeth *= tooth* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **depend** | past | teeth *= tooth* | the church and laws such Magna Carta of 1215 | | | | on nobles and money and armies | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on noble=Theme | | 4 | **overthrow** | past · passive | | some rulers | | | | | tree rules | 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:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.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): 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: [Kings, queens and emperors, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/12/) - next →: [Kings, queens and emperors, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/)