Votes for women, sentence 2
Suffragists campaigned peacefully with petitions and marches, while the suffragettes in Britain chose bolder deeds, chaining themselves to railings and going to prison, so that nobody could ignore the question.
Who acts: Suffragists, suffragettes, nobody · What happens: campaign, choose, chain, go, ignore · To what, where: bolder deeds, deeds, prison, question
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 (Suffragists, suffragettes, nobody), 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 | Suffragists | suffragist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 campaigned | nsubj |
| 2 | campaigned | campaign | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | peacefully | peacefully | ADV | _ | 2 campaigned | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 petitions | case |
| 5 | petitions | petition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 campaigned | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 marches | cc |
| 7 | marches | march | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 petitions | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 campaigned | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 chose | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 suffragettes | det |
| 11 | suffragettes | suffragette | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 chose | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Britain | case |
| 13 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 suffragettes | nmod |
| 14 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 campaigned | advcl |
| 15 | bolder | bold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 deeds | amod |
| 16 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 chose | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 chaining | punct |
| 18 | chaining | chain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 chose | advcl |
| 19 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 chaining | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 railings | case |
| 21 | railings | railing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 chaining | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 going | cc |
| 23 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 chaining | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 prison | case |
| 25 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 going | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 ignore | punct |
| 27 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 31 ignore | mark |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 nobody | det |
| 29 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 31 ignore | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 ignore | aux |
| 31 | ignore | ignore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 chose | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 question | det |
| 33 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ignore | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 campaigned | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | campaign | past | Suffragists | with petitions and marches; peacefully property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | choose | past | the suffragettes in Britain | bolder deeds | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | chain | gerund | the suffragettes in Britain not said here | deeds = deed | to railings | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient to railing=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | go | gerund | the suffragettes in Britain not said here | prison | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prison=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | ignore | could | nobody | the question | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Theme |
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:2.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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