Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights, sentence 22
In 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in Alabama; the bus boycott that followed, led by Martin Luther King and others, helped end segregation laws, which kept Black and white people apart on buses, in schools and in shops.
Who acts: Rosa, bus boycott, segregation laws · What happens: refuse, not give up, follow, lead, help, end · To what, where: 1955, bus seat, Alabama, bus boycott, segregation laws, Black people
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 (Rosa, bus boycott, segregation 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1955 | case |
| 2 | 1955 | 1955 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 refused | obl |
| 3 | Rosa | Rosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 refused | nsubj |
| 4 | Parks | Parks | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rosa | flat |
| 5 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 refused | xcomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 give | compound:prt |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 seat | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seat | compound |
| 11 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Alabama | case |
| 13 | Alabama | Alabama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 seat | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 helped | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boycott | det |
| 16 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 boycott | compound |
| 17 | boycott | boycott | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 helped | nsubj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 followed | nsubj |
| 19 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 boycott | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 led | punct |
| 21 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 boycott | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 King | case |
| 23 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 King | compound |
| 24 | Luther | Luther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 King | compound |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 led | obl:agent |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 others | cc |
| 27 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 King | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 helped | punct |
| 29 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 refused | conj |
| 30 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 helped | xcomp |
| 31 | segregation | segregation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 laws | compound |
| 32 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 end | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 kept | punct |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 kept | nsubj |
| 35 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 laws | acl:relcl |
| 36 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 people | amod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 white | cc |
| 38 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Black | conj |
| 39 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 kept | obj |
| 40 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 35 kept | advmod |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 buses | case |
| 42 | buses | bus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 kept | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 schools | punct |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 schools | case |
| 45 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 buses | conj |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 shops | cc |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 shops | case |
| 48 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 buses | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | Rosa | 1955 | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not give up | to-infinitive | Rosa not said here | Rosa's bus seat | Alabama | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Source | |||
| 3 | follow | past | the bus boycott | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lead | participle | the bus boycott not said here | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 5 | help | past | the bus boycott | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | end | infinitive | the bus boycott not said here | segregation laws | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality law=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | keep | past | segregation laws | Black people | buses and schools and shops | apart property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Theme on bus=Location |
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:22.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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.
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