--- title: George Washington led the American army to victory and became the fi… — The United States: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: George Washington led the American army to victory and became the first president in 1789, and he stepped down after two terms, showing that a president should not rule for life like a king, which the founders feared. Who acts: George, president, founders. 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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 (George, president, founders), 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:12 # text = George Washington led the American army to victory and became the first president in 1789, and he stepped down after two terms, showing that a president should not rule for life like a king, which the founders feared. # 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 1 George George PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Washington Washington PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 victory victory NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 amod _ _ 13 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 xcomp _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 1789 1789 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 down down ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 after after ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 terms term NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 rule rule VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 like like ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 founders founder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 41 feared fear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead** | past | George | the American army | | victory | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme to victory=Destination | | 2 | **become** | past | George *not said here* | the first president | | | | in 1789 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1789=Result | | 3 | **step down** | past | George | | | | after two terms | | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **show** | gerund | George *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **rule** | should | a president | | | | | for life; like a king | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **fear** | past | the founders | a king | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | 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:12`. **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. **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, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/10/) - next →: [The United States: a short story, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/)