Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies, sentence 14
Some say the Haudenosaunee inspired the US Constitution; historians debate this.
Who acts: Some, Haudenosaunee, historians · What happens: say, inspire, debate · To what, where: US Constitution, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies» 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 (Some, Haudenosaunee, historians), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Haudenosaunee | det |
| 4 | Haudenosaunee | Haudenosaunee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 inspired | nsubj |
| 5 | inspired | inspire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Constitution | det |
| 7 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Constitution | compound |
| 8 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 inspired | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 debate | punct |
| 10 | historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 debate | nsubj |
| 11 | debate | debate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | parataxis |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 debate | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | 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 | say speech: assert | present | Some | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | inspire | past | the Haudenosaunee | the US Constitution | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus constitution=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | debate | present | historians | this | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Co-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:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:14.
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): 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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