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title: A story told by a ruler's enemies, or written down long after the ev… — Kings, queens and emperors · tree and pragmatics
description: A story told by a ruler's enemies, or written down long after the event, is weak evidence and should be checked. Who acts: story. A sentence of the lesson «Kings, queens and emperors» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 17

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A story told by a ruler's enemies, or written down long after the event, is weak evidence and should be checked.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** tell, write down, be, check · **To what, where:** story, weak evidence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kings, queens and emperors» of the myths 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 (story), 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:17
# text = A story told by a ruler's enemies, or written down long after the event, is weak evidence and should be checked.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | a story *not said here* |  |  |  | by a ruler's enemies | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **write down** | participle |  |  |  |  | after the event | long *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a story | weak evidence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **check** | should · passive | a story *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP» |

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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.

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**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:17`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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