The King, the courts and the rules above the rules, sentence 16

In 1999 Australians voted in a referendum on becoming a republic, a country without a king or queen; most voted no, partly because they could not agree how a president should be chosen.

Who acts: Australians, referendum, most · What happens: vote, become, not agree, choose · To what, where: 1999, republic, president · 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 (Australians, referendum, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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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