Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers, sentence 1
They called it democracy, rule by the people, though women, slaves and foreigners could not vote.
Who acts: citizens, women, people · What happens: call, not vote, rule · To what, where: peace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers» of the history 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 (citizens, women, people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | obj |
| 4 | democracy | democracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rule | punct |
| 6 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 democracy | appos |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rule | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 women | punct |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 19 vote | mark |
| 12 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 vote | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 slaves | punct |
| 14 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 women | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 foreigners | cc |
| 16 | foreigners | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 slaves | conj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 vote | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 vote | advmod |
| 19 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 called | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | citizens = citizen | peace | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not vote | could | women and slaves and foreigners | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rule | the people | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: by=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, 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:history:012-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers.lesson:1.
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): R5-strong ×2, 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.
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