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Slavery and its abolition, sentence 16

In 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, as an unfair law demanded, and Martin Luther King Jr. led peaceful marches and gave his I have a dream speech in 1963.

Who acts: Rosa, unfair law, Martin, I · What happens: refuse, not give up, demand, lead, give, have · To what, where: 1955, bus seat, white man, peaceful marches, dream speech, 1963

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 (Rosa, unfair law, Martin, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

caseoblnsubjflatmarkxcompcompound:prtnmod:posscompoundobjcasedetamodoblpunctmarkdetamodnsubjadvclpunctccnsubjflatflatflatconjamodobjccconjnmod:possnsubjccompdetcompoundobjcasenmodpunctrootInADP1955NUMRosaPROPNParksPROPNrefusedVERBtoPARTgiveVERBupADPherPRONbusNOUNseatNOUNtoADPaDETwhiteADJmanNOUN,PUNCTasSCONJanDETunfairADJlawNOUNdemandedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJMartinPROPNLutherPROPNKingPROPNJr.PROPNledVERBpeacefulADJmarchesNOUNandCCONJgaveVERBhisPRONIPRONhaveVERBaDETdreamNOUNspeechNOUNinADP1963NUM.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_2 1955case
219551955NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card5 refusedobl
3RosaRosaPROPNNumber=Sing5 refusednsubj
4ParksParksPROPNNumber=Sing3 Rosaflat
5refusedrefuseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6totoPART_7 givemark
7givegiveVERBVerbForm=Inf5 refusedxcomp
8upupADP_7 givecompound:prt
9herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 seatnmod:poss
10busbusNOUNNumber=Sing11 seatcompound
11seatseatNOUNNumber=Sing7 giveobj
12totoADP_15 mancase
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 mandet
14whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos15 manamod
15manmanNOUNNumber=Sing7 giveobl
16,,PUNCT_21 demandedpunct
17asasSCONJ_21 demandedmark
18anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 lawdet
19unfairunfairADJDegree=Pos20 lawamod
20lawlawNOUNNumber=Sing21 demandednsubj
21demandeddemandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 giveadvcl
22,,PUNCT_28 ledpunct
23andandCCONJ_28 ledcc
24MartinMartinPROPNNumber=Sing28 lednsubj
25LutherLutherPROPNNumber=Sing24 Martinflat
26KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing24 Martinflat
27Jr.Jr.PROPNNumber=Sing24 Martinflat
28ledleadVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 refusedconj
29peacefulpeacefulADJDegree=Pos30 marchesamod
30marchesmarchNOUNNumber=Plur28 ledobj
31andandCCONJ_32 gavecc
32gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 ledconj
33hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 havenmod:poss
34IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs35 havensubj
35havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin32 gaveccomp
36aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 speechdet
37dreamdreamNOUNNumber=Sing38 speechcompound
38speechspeechNOUNNumber=Sing35 haveobj
39ininADP_40 1963case
4019631963NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card38 speechnmod
41..PUNCT_5 refusedpunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1refusepastRosa1955vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2not give upto-infinitiveRosa not said hereRosa's bus seata white manvn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent seat=Theme to man=Recipient
3demand speech: requestpasta unfair lawvn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
4leadpastMartinpeaceful marchesvn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent march=Theme
5givepastMartin not said heretree rules
6havepresentIa dream speech1963vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=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:16.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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