Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies, sentence 20
In 1797 George Washington stepped down as US president after eight years, a peaceful handover of power.
Who acts: George · What happens: step down · To what, where: 1797
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1797 | case |
| 2 | 1797 | 1797 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 stepped | obl |
| 3 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stepped | nsubj |
| 4 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 George | flat |
| 5 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 stepped | compound:prt |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 president | case |
| 8 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 president | compound |
| 9 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stepped | obl |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 11 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stepped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 handover | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 handover | det |
| 15 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 handover | amod |
| 16 | handover | handover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stepped | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 power | case |
| 18 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 handover | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stepped | 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 | step down | past | George | 1797 | year | as US president | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=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:20.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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