Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights, sentence 16

Serfs were farmers tied to a landlord's land who could not leave freely; serfdom ended in the Austrian Empire in 1848 and in the Russian Empire, including much of Ukraine, in 1861.

Who acts: Serfs, land, serfdom · What happens: be, tie, not leave, end · To what, where: farmers, Austrian Empire

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 (Serfs, land, serfdom), 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	Serfs	serf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 farmers	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 farmers	cop
3	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 farmers	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 land	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 landlord	det
7	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 land	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 landlord	case
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tied	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 leave	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 leave	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 leave	advmod
13	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 land	acl:relcl
14	freely	freely	ADV	_	13 leave	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 ended	punct
16	serfdom	serfdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ended	nsubj
17	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 farmers	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 Empire	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Empire	det
20	Austrian	austrian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Empire	amod
21	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 ended	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 1848	case
23	1848	1848	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 Empire	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Empire	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 Empire	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Empire	det
27	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Empire	amod
28	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Empire	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Ukraine	punct
30	including	include	ADP	_	33 Ukraine	case
31	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Ukraine	amod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Ukraine	case
33	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Empire	appos
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 1861	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 1861	case
36	1861	1861	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 ended	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 farmers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Serfs	farmers			tree rules
2	tie	participle		farmers not said here		to a landlord's land	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to land=Co-Patient
3	not leave	could	a landlord's land			freely property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	end	past	serfdom		the Austrian Empire in 1848 and the Russian Empire	in 1861	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:16.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/16/