US elections and the president, as reported, sentence 16

Some call 6 January a dangerous attack on democracy; others say most people there were protesters who felt unheard; it was reported that in January 2025 President Trump pardoned most of those charged, which means he cancelled their punishment.

Who acts: Some, others, most people, protesters, Trump, people · What happens: call, say, be, feel, report, pardon · To what, where: dangerous attack, protesters, crowd, most, punishment · 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 (Some, others, most people, protesters), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 call	nsubj
2	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 means	parataxis
3	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 January	nummod
4	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 call	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 attack	det
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 attack	amod
7	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 call	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 democracy	case
9	democracy	democracy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attack	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 call	parataxis
13	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 people	amod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 protesters	nsubj
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 protesters	expl
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 protesters	cop
17	protesters	protester	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 say	ccomp
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 felt	nsubj
19	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 protesters	acl:relcl
20	unheard	unheard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 felt	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 reported	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 reported	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 reported	aux:pass
24	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 means	parataxis
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 pardoned	mark
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 January	case
27	January	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 pardoned	obl
28	2025	2025	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 January	nmod:unmarked
29	President	President	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Trump	nmod:desc
30	Trump	Trump	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 pardoned	nsubj
31	pardoned	pardon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 reported	ccomp
32	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 pardoned	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 those	case
34	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 most	nmod
35	charged	charge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 those	acl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 means	punct
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 means	nsubj
38	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 cancelled	nsubj
40	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 means	ccomp
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 punishment	nmod:poss
42	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cancelled	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 call	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	present	Some	a dangerous attack on democracy		january		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	others					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	most people	protesters	there			tree rules
4	feel	past	protesters				unheard property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	report	past · passive		crowd				vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
6	pardon	past	Trump President	most of those		january		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme
7	charge	participle						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	mean	present						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	cancel	past	Trump	people's punishment				tree rules
10	punish		people					nom punishment «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:politics:016-us-elections-and-the-president-as-reported.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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