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title: Henri Dunant helped start the Red Cross in 1863, and in 1864 countri… — Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through… · tree and pragmatics
description: Henri Dunant helped start the Red Cross in 1863, and in 1864 countries signed the first Geneva Convention to protect wounded soldiers. Who acts: Henri, countries. A sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time, sentence 18

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Henri Dunant helped start the Red Cross in 1863, and in 1864 countries signed the first Geneva Convention to protect wounded soldiers.

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**Who acts:** Henri, countries · **What happens:** help, start, sign, protect · **To what, where:** Red Cross, 1863, 1864, wounded soldiers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Henri, countries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.lesson:18
# text = Henri Dunant helped start the Red Cross in 1863, and in 1864 countries signed the first Geneva Convention to protect wounded soldiers.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 068-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Henri	Henri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Dunant	Dunant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	_	7	flat	_	_
7	Cross	Cross	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1863	1863	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	1864	1864	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nummod
14	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	signed	sign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
18	Geneva	Geneva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	Convention	convention	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past | Henri |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | infinitive | Henri *not said here* | the Red Cross |  | 1863 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sign** | past | countries | 1864 |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent convention=Theme |
| 4 | **protect** | to-infinitive | countries *not said here* | wounded soldiers |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Beneficiary |

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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.

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**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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