Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies, sentence 8
The hardest thing for a ruler is to let go.
What happens: be, let, go · To what, where: hardest thing
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 ruler | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ruler | det |
| 6 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thing | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thing | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 let | mark |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thing | xcomp |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the hardest thing | for a ruler | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:8.
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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