Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights, sentence 14
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison under apartheid, South Africa's laws separating people by race, then became president in 1994.
Who acts: Nelson, laws · What happens: spend, separate, become · To what, where: prison, people, president, 1994
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights» 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 (Nelson, laws), 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 | Nelson | Nelson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | Mandela | Mandela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Nelson | flat |
| 3 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spent | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 prison | case |
| 7 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | obl |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 apartheid | case |
| 9 | apartheid | apartheid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Africa | punct |
| 11 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Africa | compound |
| 12 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 laws | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Africa | case |
| 14 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 apartheid | appos |
| 15 | separating | separate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 laws | acl |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 separating | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 race | case |
| 18 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 separating | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 became | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 became | advmod |
| 21 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spent | conj |
| 22 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 became | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 1994 | case |
| 24 | 1994 | 1994 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 became | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spent | 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 | spend | past | Nelson | prison | year | under apartheid | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | separate | gerund | South Africa's laws not said here | people | by race | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | |||
| 3 | become | past | Nelson not said here | president | then | in 1994 result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1994=Result |
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:069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.lesson:14.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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