Congress and Parliament: how a law is made, sentence 7
In the House of Commons, MPs (Members of Parliament), each voted in by one area, debate face to face, with the government on one side and the opposition on the other; the Speaker keeps order and calls "Order!"
Who acts: debate face, Speaker · What happens: vote, face, keep, call · To what, where: each, House, government, one side, order · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Congress and Parliament: how a law is made» 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 (debate face, Speaker), 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 | _ | 3 House | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 House | det |
| 3 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 voted | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Commons | case |
| 5 | Commons | common | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 House | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 MPs | punct |
| 7 | MPs | mp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Commons | conj |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 Members | punct |
| 9 | Members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 MPs | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Parliament | case |
| 11 | Parliament | parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Members | nmod |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 Members | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 House | punct |
| 14 | each | each | PRON | PronType=Tot | 15 voted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | voted | vote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 area | case |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 area | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 area | nummod |
| 19 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 voted | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 face | punct |
| 21 | debate | debate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 face | compound |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 area | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 face | case |
| 24 | face | face | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 face | acl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 government | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 government | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 government | det |
| 28 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 face | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 side | case |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 side | nummod |
| 31 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 government | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 opposition | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 opposition | det |
| 34 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 side | conj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 other | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 other | det |
| 37 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 opposition | nmod |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 keeps | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Speaker | det |
| 40 | Speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 keeps | nsubj |
| 41 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 voted | conj |
| 42 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 keeps | obj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 calls | cc |
| 44 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 keeps | conj |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 keeps | punct |
| 46 | Order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 calls | obj |
| 47 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 41 keeps | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote | participle · passive | each | the House of Commons and MPs | in one area debate face | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | face | infinitive | debate face not said here | the government | one side and the opposition on the other | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme government=Destination | |||
| 3 | keep | present | the Speaker | order | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | present | the Speaker not said here | Order | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent order=Recipient |
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.
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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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×5. 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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