The United States: a short story, sentence 2
On 4 July 1776 they declared independence, saying all men are created equal, though slavery went on, and George Washington led their army to victory and became the first president.
Who acts: protesters, slavery, George · What happens: declare, say, create, go on, lead, become · To what, where: independence, 4, men, army, victory, first president · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (protesters, slavery, George), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 4 | case |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 declared | obl |
| 3 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 4 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 1776 | 1776 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 July | flat |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 declared | nsubj |
| 6 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 declared | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 declared | advcl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 men | det |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 created | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 created | aux:pass |
| 13 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 saying | ccomp |
| 14 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 created | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 went | mark |
| 17 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 created | advcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 18 went | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 led | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 led | cc |
| 22 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 led | nsubj |
| 23 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 George | flat |
| 24 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 declared | conj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 army | nmod:poss |
| 26 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 led | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 victory | case |
| 28 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 led | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 became | cc |
| 30 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 led | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 president | det |
| 32 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 33 president | amod |
| 33 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 became | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | protesters = protester | independence | 4 July | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Attribute | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | protesters = protester not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | create | present · passive | all men | equal property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 4 | go on | past | slavery | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lead | past | George | protesters's army | victory | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme to victory=Destination | |||
| 6 | become | past | George not said here | the first president | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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:2.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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