The United States: a short story, sentence 17
In 2008 Barack Obama was elected the first Black president of the United States.
What happens: elect · To what, where: Barack, 2008
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: 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 2008 | case |
| 2 | 2008 | 2008 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 elected | obl |
| 3 | Barack | Barack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | Obama | Obama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Barack | flat |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 elected | aux:pass |
| 6 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 president | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 president | amod |
| 9 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 president | amod |
| 10 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 elected | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 States | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 States | det |
| 13 | United | United | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 States | flat |
| 14 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 president | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 elected | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elect | past · passive | Barack | 2008 | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:038-the-united-states-a-short-story.lesson:17.
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. 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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