The United States: a short story, sentence 10

The colonists were angry that Britain taxed them though they had no say in Parliament, and their cry was no taxation without representation; in the Boston Tea Party of 1773 protesters threw tea into the harbour.

Who acts: colonists, Britain, cry, protesters · What happens: be, tax, have, throw, cry · To what, where: colonists, say, Parliament, taxation, tea, Boston Tea Party

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, cry, protesters), 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	4 angry	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	cop
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
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	4 angry	ccomp
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	_	15 Parliament	case
15	Parliament	parliament	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 say	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 taxation	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 taxation	cc
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 cry	nmod:poss
19	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 taxation	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 taxation	cop
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 taxation	det
22	taxation	taxation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taxed	conj
23	without	without	ADP	_	24 representation	case
24	representation	representation	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 taxation	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 threw	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 Party	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Party	det
28	Boston	Boston	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Party	compound
29	Tea	Tea	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Party	compound
30	Party	Party	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 threw	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 protesters	case
32	1773	1773	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 Party	nmod
33	protesters	protester	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 threw	nsubj
34	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	parataxis
35	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 threw	obj
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 harbour	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 harbour	det
38	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 threw	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 angry	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the colonists			angry property	tree rules
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	Parliament		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent say=Patient
4	is a	past	colonists's cry	no taxation		without representation	tree rules
5	throw	past	protesters	tea	the Boston Tea Party 1773	into the harbour	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tea=Theme in party=Destination
6	cry		colonists = colonist				nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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:10.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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