Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights, sentence 23
Nelson Mandela was released in 1990 after 27 years in prison and elected president in 1994 in South Africa's first election open to all races.
Who acts: South Africa · What happens: release, elect · To what, where: Nelson, 1990, 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 (South Africa), 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 | 4 released | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Mandela | Mandela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Nelson | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 released | aux:pass |
| 4 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1990 | case |
| 6 | 1990 | 1990 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 released | obl |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 8 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 released | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 prison | case |
| 11 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 years | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 elected | cc |
| 13 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 released | conj |
| 14 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 elected | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1994 | case |
| 16 | 1994 | 1994 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 elected | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 election | case |
| 18 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Africa | compound |
| 19 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 election | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Africa | case |
| 21 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 election | amod |
| 22 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 elected | obl |
| 23 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 election | amod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 races | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 races | det |
| 26 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 open | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 released | 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 | release | past · passive | Nelson | 1990 | year | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source | |||
| 2 | elect | participle | president | 1994 | in South Africa's first election | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent president=Theme | |||
| 3 | elect | South Africa | nom election «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:23.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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