Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time, sentence 18
Henri Dunant helped start the Red Cross in 1863, and in 1864 countries signed the first Geneva Convention to protect wounded soldiers.
Who acts: Henri, countries · What happens: help, start, sign, protect · To what, where: Red Cross, 1863, 1864, wounded soldiers
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» 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 (Henri, countries), 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 | Henri | Henri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 helped | nsubj |
| 2 | Dunant | Dunant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Henri | flat |
| 3 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 helped | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Cross | det |
| 6 | Red | Red | PROPN | _ | 7 Cross | flat |
| 7 | Cross | Cross | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 start | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1863 | case |
| 9 | 1863 | 1863 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 start | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 signed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 signed | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 countries | case |
| 13 | 1864 | 1864 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 signed | obl |
| 14 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 signed | nsubj |
| 15 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 helped | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Convention | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 Convention | amod |
| 18 | Geneva | Geneva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Convention | compound |
| 19 | Convention | convention | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 signed | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 protect | mark |
| 21 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 Convention | acl |
| 22 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 soldiers | amod |
| 23 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 protect | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | Henri | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | start | infinitive | Henri not said here | the Red Cross | 1863 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | sign | past | countries | 1864 | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent convention=Theme | ||||
| 4 | protect | to-infinitive | countries not said here | wounded soldiers | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Beneficiary |
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:068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.lesson:18.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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