The United States: a short story, sentence 1
The colonists grew angry that Britain taxed them though they had no say in its Parliament, like being charged for a school trip you were never allowed to vote on, and in 1773 protesters tipped British tea into Boston harbour.
Who acts: colonists, Britain, school trip, you, protesters · What happens: grow, tax, have, charge, not allow, vote · To what, where: colonists, say, Parliament, you, British tea, 1773
This is a sentence of the lesson «The United States: a short story» 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 (colonists, Britain, school trip, you), 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 | 2 colonists | det |
| 2 | colonists | colonist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 taxed | mark |
| 6 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 taxed | nsubj |
| 7 | taxed | tax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 taxed | obj |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taxed | advcl |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 say | det |
| 13 | say | say | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Parliament | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Parliament | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Parliament | parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 say | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 charged | punct |
| 18 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 20 charged | mark |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 charged | aux:pass |
| 20 | charged | charge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 had | advcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 trip | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 trip | det |
| 23 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trip | compound |
| 24 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 charged | obl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 allowed | aux:pass |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 allowed | advmod |
| 28 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 trip | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 vote | mark |
| 30 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 allowed | xcomp |
| 31 | on | on | ADV | _ | 30 vote | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 tipped | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 tipped | cc |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 1773 | case |
| 35 | 1773 | 1773 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 tipped | obl |
| 36 | protesters | protester | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 tipped | nsubj |
| 37 | tipped | tip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 38 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 tea | amod |
| 39 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 tipped | obj |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 harbour | case |
| 41 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 harbour | compound |
| 42 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 tipped | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the colonists | angry property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tax | past | Britain | colonists = colonist | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | colonists = colonist | no say | say's Parliament | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent say=Patient | |||
| 4 | charge | gerund · passive | colonists = colonist not said here | for a school trip | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V» | ||||
| 5 | not allow | past · passive | a school trip not said here | you | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | vote not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | tip | past | protesters | British tea | 1773 | into Boston harbour result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer tea=Theme into harbour=Result |
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:038-the-united-states-a-short-story.lesson:1.
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): 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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