How empires fell: the map of the 20th century, sentence 12

India won independence from Britain in 1947 after decades of peaceful campaigning led by figures such as Mahatma Gandhi, whose Salt March of 1930 protested against a British tax on salt.

Who acts: India, Salt March · What happens: win, lead, protest · To what, where: independence, Britain, peaceful campaigning

This is a sentence of the lesson «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» of the geography 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 (India, Salt March), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	independence	independence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Britain	case
5	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 independence	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1947	case
7	1947	1947	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 won	obl
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 decades	case
9	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 won	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 campaigning	case
11	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 campaigning	amod
12	campaigning	campaigning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 decades	nmod
13	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 campaigning	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 figures	case
15	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 led	obl
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	18 Mahatma	case
17	as	as	ADP	_	16 such	fixed
18	Mahatma	Mahatma	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 figures	nmod
19	Gandhi	Gandhi	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Mahatma	flat
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 March	punct
21	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	23 March	nmod:poss
22	Salt	Salt	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 March	compound
23	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 protested	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 1930	case
25	1930	1930	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 March	nmod
26	protested	protest	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Mahatma	acl:relcl
27	against	against	ADP	_	30 tax	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 tax	det
29	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tax	amod
30	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 protested	obl
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 salt	case
32	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tax	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 won	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	India	independence	Britain	decade	in 1947	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent independence=Theme from britain=Source
2	lead	participle		peaceful campaigning not said here			by figures such Mahatma	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by figure=Destination
3	protest speech: disagree	past	Salt March of 1930				against a British tax on salt	vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent against tax=Topic

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, 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:geography:037-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century.lesson:12.

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.

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