The United States: a short story, sentence 4
After two World Wars the USA became one of the most powerful countries on Earth, and in 2008 Barack Obama was elected its first Black president.
Who acts: USA · What happens: become, 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: who acts (USA), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 Wars | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Wars | nummod |
| 3 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Wars | compound |
| 4 | Wars | War | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 became | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 USA | det |
| 6 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 became | nsubj |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 became | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 countries | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 countries | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 powerful | advmod |
| 12 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 countries | amod |
| 13 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Earth | case |
| 15 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 countries | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 elected | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 elected | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 2008 | case |
| 19 | 2008 | 2008 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 elected | obl |
| 20 | Barack | Barack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | Obama | Obama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Barack | flat |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 elected | aux:pass |
| 23 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 became | conj |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 president | nmod:poss |
| 25 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 president | amod |
| 26 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 president | amod |
| 27 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 elected | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the USA | after two World Wars | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | 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:4.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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