--- title: In 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, a… — Slavery and its abolition · tree and pragmatics description: In 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, as an unfair law demanded, and Martin Luther King Jr. led peaceful marches and gave his I have a dream speech in 1963. Who acts: Rosa, unfair law, Martin, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosa, unfair law, Martin, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:031-slavery-and-its-abolition.lesson:16 # text = In 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, as an unfair law demanded, and Martin Luther King Jr. led peaceful marches and gave his I have a dream speech in 1963. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 031-slavery-and-its-abolition.lesson # annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1955 1955 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 3 Rosa Rosa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Parks Parks PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 demanded demand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 Martin Martin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 Luther Luther PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 26 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 27 Jr. Jr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nmod:desc 28 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 29 peaceful peaceful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 marches march NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 1963 1963 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **refuse** | past | Rosa | | | 1955 | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **give up** | to-infinitive | Rosa *not said here* | Rosa's bus seat | a white man | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent seat=Theme to man=Recipient | | 3 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | a unfair law | | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **lead** | past | Martin | peaceful marches | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent march=Theme | | 5 | **give** | past | Martin *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | present | I | a dream speech | | 1963 | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:history:031-slavery-and-its-abolition.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Slavery and its abolition, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/15/) - next →: [Slavery and its abolition, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/)