Votes for women, sentence 5
In 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing country where women could vote in national elections, after a huge petition led by Kate Sheppard.
Who acts: New Zealand, women · What happens: become, govern, vote, lead · To what, where: first governing country, 1893, national elections, huge petition
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 (New Zealand, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1893 | case |
| 2 | 1893 | 1893 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 became | obl |
| 3 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Zealand | flat |
| 4 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 country | amod |
| 8 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 governing | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 self | punct |
| 10 | governing | govern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 country | amod |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | xcomp |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 vote | advmod |
| 13 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 vote | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 vote | aux |
| 15 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 country | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 elections | case |
| 17 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 elections | amod |
| 18 | elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 vote | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 petition | punct |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 petition | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 petition | det |
| 22 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 petition | amod |
| 23 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | obl |
| 24 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 petition | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 Kate | case |
| 26 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 led | obl:agent |
| 27 | Sheppard | Sheppard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Kate | flat |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | 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 | become | past | New Zealand | the first governing country | after a huge petition | in 1893 result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1893=Result | ||
| 2 | govern | gerund | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | vote | could | women | national elections | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lead | participle | a huge petition not said here | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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:5.
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): no change. 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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