Votes for women, sentence 7

The British suffragettes, led by Emmeline Pankhurst, used bolder actions such as chaining themselves to railings, breaking windows and going on hunger strike in prison.

Who acts: British suffragettes, bolder actions · What happens: lead, use, chain, break, go · To what, where: British suffragettes, bolder actions, actions, windows, hunger strike

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 (British suffragettes, bolder actions), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 suffragettes	det
2	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 suffragettes	amod
3	suffragettes	suffragette	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 used	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 suffragettes	punct
5	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 suffragettes	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 Emmeline	case
7	Emmeline	Emmeline	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 led	obl
8	Pankhurst	Pankhurst	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Emmeline	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 suffragettes	punct
10	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	bolder	bold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 actions	amod
12	actions	action	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 used	obj
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	15 chaining	mark
14	as	as	ADP	_	13 such	fixed
15	chaining	chain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 actions	acl
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 chaining	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 railings	case
18	railings	railing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 chaining	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 breaking	punct
20	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 chaining	conj
21	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 breaking	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 going	cc
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 chaining	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 strike	case
25	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 strike	compound
26	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 going	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 prison	case
28	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 going	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 used	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	participle		the British suffragettes not said here		by Emmeline	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by emmeline=Destination
2	use	past	the British suffragettes	bolder actions			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Patient
3	chain	gerund	bolder actions not said here	actions = action		to railings	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient to railing=Co-Patient
4	break	gerund	bolder actions not said here	windows			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Patient
5	go	gerund	bolder actions not said here		hunger strike	in prison	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on strike=Location

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:7.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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