--- title: Nelson Mandela was released in 1990 after 27 years in prison and ele… — Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and chil… · tree and pragmatics description: Nelson Mandela was released in 1990 after 27 years in prison and elected president in 1994 in South Africa's first election open to all races. Who acts: South Africa. A sentence of the lesson «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights» of the history course of Mova's primary scho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Rights won step by step: freedom, vote…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/) / 23 # Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights, sentence 23 Nelson Mandela was released in 1990 after 27 years in prison and elected president in 1994 in South Africa's first election open to all races. **Who acts:** South Africa · **What happens:** release, elect · **To what, where:** Nelson, 1990, president, 1994 This is a sentence of the lesson «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights» 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 (South Africa), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.lesson:23 # text = Nelson Mandela was released in 1990 after 27 years in prison and elected president in 1994 in South Africa's first election open to all races. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Nelson Nelson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 Mandela Mandela PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 released release VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 1990 1990 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 7 after after ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 27 27 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 elected elect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 president president NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 1994 1994 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 22 amod _ _ 22 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 23 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 races race NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **release** | past · passive | | Nelson | | 1990 | year | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source | | 2 | **elect** | participle | | president | | 1994 | | in South Africa's first election | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent president=Theme | | 3 | **elect** | | South Africa | | | | | | nom election «act transitive»: 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:069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.lesson:23`. **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 ×1, 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. 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