--- title: Historians work like detectives: they ask who first told the story,… — Kings, queens and emperors · tree and pragmatics description: Historians work like detectives: they ask who first told the story, how long after the event, and whether that person was there or had a reason to make the ruler look bad. Who acts: Historians, person, ruler. 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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, person, ruler), 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:2 # text = Historians work like detectives: they ask who first told the story, how long after the event, and whether that person was there or had a reason to make the ruler look bad. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Historians historian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 detectives detective NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 9 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 advmod _ _ 10 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 15 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:ccomp 16 after after ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 event event NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 ruler ruler NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 35 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | Historians | | | | | like detectives | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Historians *= historian* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | | the story | | | | first, long *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | past | that person | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | past | Historians *= historian* *not said here* | a reason | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | | 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | Historians *= historian* *not said here* | the ruler | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **look** | infinitive | the ruler *not said here* | | | | | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:2`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/1/) - next →: [Kings, queens and emperors, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/)