--- title: The colonists were angry that Britain taxed them though they had no… — The United States: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: The colonists were angry that Britain taxed them though they had no say in Parliament, and their cry was no taxation without representation; in the Boston Tea Party of 1773 protesters threw tea into the harbour. Who acts: colonists, Britain, cry, protesters. 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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 (colonists, Britain, cry, protesters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:038-the-united-states-a-short-story.lesson:10 # text = The colonists were angry that Britain taxed them though they had no say in Parliament, and their cry was no taxation without representation; in the Boston Tea Party of 1773 protesters threw tea into the harbour. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 038-the-united-states-a-short-story.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 colonists colonist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 taxed tax VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 though though SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 say say NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Parliament parliament PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 22 taxation taxation NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 23 without without ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 representation representation NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 Boston Boston PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 29 Tea Tea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Party Party PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 1773 1773 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nummod 33 protesters protester NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 35 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 into into ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 harbour harbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the colonists | | | | | angry *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **tax** | past | Britain | colonists *= colonist* | | | | | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 3 | **have** | past | colonists *= colonist* | no say | | Parliament | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent say=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | past | colonists's cry | no taxation | | | | without representation | tree rules | | 5 | **throw** | past | protesters | tea | | the Boston Tea Party 1773 | | into the harbour | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tea=Theme in party=Destination | | 6 | **cry** | | colonists *= colonist* | | | | | | nom cry «communication intransitive»: 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](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:038-the-united-states-a-short-story.lesson:10`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The United States: a short story, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/9/) - next →: [The United States: a short story, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/)