--- title: In 1776 American colonists declared independence from Britain and la… — Who decides: kings, councils, republics and demo… · tree and pragmatics description: In 1776 American colonists declared independence from Britain and later set up a republic; in 1789 the French Revolution overthrew the king's power; at first mostly men with property could vote, and slavery went on in the US. Who acts: American colonists, French Revolution, men, slavery. 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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 (American colonists, French Revolution, men, slavery), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:15 # text = In 1776 American colonists declared independence from Britain and later set up a republic; in 1789 the French Revolution overthrew the king's power; at first mostly men with property could vote, and slavery went on in the US. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1776 1776 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 3 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 colonists colonist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 independence independence NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 11 advmod _ _ 11 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 republic republic NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 1789 1789 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Revolution Revolution PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 overthrew overthrow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 34 obl _ _ 29 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 property property NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advcl 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 slavery slavery NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 39 on on ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 . . 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 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | American colonists | independence | | 1776 | | from Britain | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Attribute | | 2 | **set up** | past | American colonists *not said here* | a republic | | | | late *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient republic=Result | | 3 | **overthrow** | past | the French Revolution | the king's power | | 1789 | | | tree rules | | 4 | **vote** | could | men with property | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **go on** | past | slavery | | | | | in the US | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in us=Location | 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:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:15`. **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): 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. 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