Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies, sentence 6
Humans have tried all of these ways to run whole countries.
Who acts: Humans · What happens: try, run · To what, where: all, whole countries
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 (Humans), 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 | Humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | aux |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 tried | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ways | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 ways | det |
| 7 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 all | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 run | mark |
| 9 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | advcl |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 countries | amod |
| 11 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 run | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | 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 | try | present · perfect | Humans | all | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | run | to-infinitive | Humans not said here | whole countries | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Trajectory |
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:6.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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