Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies, sentence 4
Revolutions gave the vote at first mostly to men with property, and rights came slowly, step by step.
Who acts: Revolutions, rights, step · What happens: give, come, step · To what, where: vote, men, step
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 (Revolutions, rights, step), 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 | Revolutions | revolution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 vote | det |
| 4 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 first | case |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 gave | obl |
| 7 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 9 men | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 property | case |
| 11 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 men | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 14 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 16 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 step | punct |
| 18 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 step | case |
| 20 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 step | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | 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 | give | past | Revolutions | the vote | men with property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent vote=Theme at first=Asset to man=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come | past | rights | step by step | slowly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | step | step | nom step «act transitive»: by=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: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): no change. 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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