--- title: At the King's Speech, which opens Parliament, the King reads out the… — The King, the courts and the rules above the rules · tree and pragmatics description: At the King's Speech, which opens Parliament, the King reads out the government's plans, written by the government, not by him. Who acts: Speech, King, government. 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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 (Speech, King, government), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:007-the-king-the-courts-and-the-rules-above-the-rules.lesson:7 # text = At the King's Speech, which opens Parliament, the King reads out the government's plans, written by the government, not by him. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 007-the-king-the-courts-and-the-rules-above-the-rules.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 At at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 Speech speech PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 Parliament parliament PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 plans plan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:agent _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | present | the King's Speech | Parliament | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location parliament=Theme | | 2 | **read out** | present | the King | the government's plans | | the King's Speech | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent plan=Theme at speech=Value | | 3 | **write** | participle | | the government's plans *not said here* | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **plan** | | the government | | | | | | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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:politics:007-the-king-the-courts-and-the-rules-above-the-rules.lesson:7`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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