--- title: In the Salem witch trials of 1692, nineteen people were hanged and o… — Ancient times and famous stories · tree and pragmatics description: In the Salem witch trials of 1692, nineteen people were hanged and one man was crushed to death with stones; nobody was burned there, though witches were burned in some other countries. 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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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:13 # text = In the Salem witch trials of 1692, nineteen people were hanged and one man was crushed to death with stones; nobody was burned there, though witches were burned in some other countries. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.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 ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 Salem Salem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 trials trial NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 1692 1692 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 nineteen nineteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 hanged hange VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 crushed crush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 burned burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 parataxis _ _ 26 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 though though SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 witches witch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 burned burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:conj 32 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 35 det _ _ 34 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hange** | past · passive | | nineteen people | | the Salem witch trials of 1692 | | | tree rules | | 2 | **crush** | past · passive | | one man | | | | to death *result*; with stones | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: subject=Patient to death=Result with stone=Instrument | | 3 | **burn** | past · passive | | nobody | | there | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **burn** | past · passive | | witches | | some other countries | | | 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:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.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): 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: [Ancient times and famous stories, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories/12/) - next →: [Ancient times and famous stories, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories/)