Slavery and its abolition, sentence 12

Abolitionists used badges with the words Am I not a man and a brother, sugar boycotts and petitions, and many ordinary people, including women, joined in.

Who acts: Abolitionists, I, many ordinary people · What happens: use, not be, include, join in · To what, where: badges, man

This is a sentence of the lesson «Slavery and its abolition» 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 (Abolitionists, I, many ordinary 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	Abolitionists	abolitionist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	badges	badge	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 used	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 words	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 badges	nmod
7	Am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 man	cop
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 man	nsubj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 man	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 words	appos
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 brother	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 brother	det
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 boycotts	punct
16	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 boycotts	compound
17	boycotts	boycott	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 badges	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 petitions	cc
19	petitions	petition	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 boycotts	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 joined	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 people	cc
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 people	amod
23	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 people	amod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 joined	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 people	punct
26	including	include	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 women	case
27	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 people	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 joined	punct
29	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 used	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	29 joined	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	past	Abolitionists	badges and sugar boycotts and petitions	with the words	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badge=Patient
2	not is a	present	I	a man and a brother		tree rules
3	include	gerund				vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	join in	past	many ordinary people include women			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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:031-slavery-and-its-abolition.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

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