--- title: On 4 July 1776 they declared independence, saying all men are create… — The United States: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: On 4 July 1776 they declared independence, saying all men are created equal, though slavery went on, and George Washington led their army to victory and became the first president. Who acts: protesters, slavery, George. 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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 (protesters, slavery, George), 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:2 # text = On 4 July 1776 they declared independence, saying all men are created equal, though slavery went on, and George Washington led their army to victory and became the first president. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 3 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 1776 1776 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 flat _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 independence independence NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 created create VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 ccomp _ _ 14 equal equal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 though though SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 slavery slavery NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 19 on on ADV RB _ 18 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 George George PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 Washington Washington PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 flat _ _ 24 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 victory victory NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 33 amod _ _ 33 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | protesters *= protester* | independence | | 4 July | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Attribute | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | protesters *= protester* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **create** | present · passive | | all men | | | | equal *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 4 | **go on** | past | slavery | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **lead** | past | George | protesters's army | | victory | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme to victory=Destination | | 6 | **become** | past | George *not said here* | the first president | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:038-the-united-states-a-short-story.lesson:2`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The United States: a short story, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/1/) - next →: [The United States: a short story, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/)