Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers, sentence 7
Democracy means rule by the people; in Athens, about 2,500 years ago, citizens met on a hill to vote on laws and on war and peace.
Who acts: Democracy, citizens, people · What happens: mean, meet, vote, rule · To what, where: rule, Athens, laws
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 (Democracy, citizens, 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 | Democracy | democracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rule | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 Athens | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Athens | case |
| 9 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 met | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ago | punct |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 2,500 | advmod |
| 12 | 2,500 | 2500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 17 met | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 met | punct |
| 16 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 met | nsubj |
| 17 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 hill | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hill | det |
| 20 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 met | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 vote | mark |
| 22 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 met | advcl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 laws | case |
| 24 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 vote | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 war | cc |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 war | case |
| 27 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 laws | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 peace | cc |
| 29 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 war | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Democracy | rule | by the people | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Topic | |||
| 2 | meet | past | citizens | Athens | on a hill; ago property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | vote | to-infinitive | citizens not said here | laws and war and peace | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | 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.
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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 ×4. 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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