The King, the courts and the rules above the rules, sentence 15

The rule of law means everyone, even leaders, must follow the same laws; an accused person is not guilty unless a court decides so.

Who acts: rule, everyone, accused person, court, law · What happens: mean, follow, accuse, not be, decide, rule · To what, where: same laws · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The King, the courts and the rules above the rules» 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 (rule, everyone, accused person, court), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rule	det
2	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 law	case
4	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rule	nmod
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 follow	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 leaders	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 leaders	advmod
9	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 everyone	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 follow	punct
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 follow	aux
12	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 laws	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 laws	amod
15	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 follow	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 guilty	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 person	det
18	accused	accuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 person	amod
19	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 guilty	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 guilty	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 guilty	advmod
22	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 follow	parataxis
23	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	26 decides	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 court	det
25	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 decides	nsubj
26	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 guilty	advcl
27	so	so	ADV	_	26 decides	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	the rule of law			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	follow	must	everyone	the same laws		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme
3	accuse	participle				vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	not is	present	a accused person		guilty property	tree rules
5	decide	present	a court			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rule		law			nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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:007-the-king-the-courts-and-the-rules-above-the-rules.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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