Votes for women, sentence 0

Two hundred years ago in most countries only men who owned property could vote, and no women anywhere could vote in national elections, as if they could not decide important things.

Who acts: men, women · What happens: own, vote, not decide · To what, where: property, most countries, national elections, important things

This is a sentence of the lesson «Votes for women» 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 (men, women), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ago	obl:unmarked
4	ago	ago	ADV	_	14 vote	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 countries	case
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 countries	amod
7	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 vote	obl
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 men	advmod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 vote	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 owned	nsubj
11	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 men	acl:relcl
12	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 owned	obj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 vote	aux
14	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 vote	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 vote	cc
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 women	det
18	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 vote	nsubj
19	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 women	advmod
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 vote	aux
21	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 vote	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 elections	case
23	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 elections	amod
24	elections	election	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 vote	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 decide	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 decide	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 decide	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 decide	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 decide	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 decide	advmod
31	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 vote	advcl
32	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 things	amod
33	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 decide	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 vote	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	own	past	men	property			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot property=Theme
2	vote	could	men		most countries	ago property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	vote	could	no women		national elections		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not decide	could	women = woman	important things			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent thing=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:history:032-votes-for-women.lesson:0.

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 ×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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