US elections and the president, as reported, sentence 15
On 6 January 2021, news reports said, while Congress met to confirm the result, a crowd of Donald Trump's supporters broke into the Capitol; people were hurt, and Congress finished confirming Joe Biden's win that night.
Who acts: news reports, Congress, crowd, Joe · What happens: say, meet, confirm, break, hurt, finish · To what, where: result, Capitol, people, win · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «US elections and the president, as reported» of the politics 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 (news reports, Congress, crowd, Joe), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 January | case |
| 2 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 January | nummod |
| 3 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 4 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 January | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 6 | punct |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reports | compound |
| 7 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 met | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 met | mark |
| 11 | Congress | Congress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 met | nsubj |
| 12 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 broke | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 confirm | mark |
| 14 | confirm | confirm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 met | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 result | det |
| 16 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 confirm | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 crowd | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 crowd | det |
| 19 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 broke | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 supporters | case |
| 21 | Donald | Donald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 supporters | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Trump | Trump | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Donald | flat |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Donald | case |
| 24 | supporters | supporter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 crowd | nmod |
| 25 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 Capitol | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Capitol | det |
| 28 | Capitol | Capitol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 broke | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 hurt | punct |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 hurt | aux:pass |
| 32 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 broke | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 finished | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 finished | cc |
| 35 | Congress | Congress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 finished | nsubj |
| 36 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 37 | confirming | confirm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 finished | xcomp |
| 38 | Joe | Joe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 win | nmod:poss |
| 39 | Biden | Biden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Joe | flat |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 Joe | case |
| 41 | win | win | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 confirming | obj |
| 42 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 night | det |
| 43 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 confirming | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | news reports | january | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | Congress | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | confirm | to-infinitive | Congress not said here | the result | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot result=Topic | ||||
| 4 | break | past | a crowd of Donald's supporters | into the Capitol result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into capitol=Result | ||||
| 5 | hurt | past · passive | people | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | finish | past | Congress | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | confirm | gerund | Congress not said here | Joe's win | night | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot win=Topic | |||
| 8 | win | Joe | nom win «event intransitive»: 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:politics:016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.lesson:15.
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 ×3. 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/politics/16-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported/15/