Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world, sentence 10

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have lived in Australia for at least 50,000 years, and British colonisation from 1788 brought disease, violence and the taking of their land.

Who acts: Aboriginal, British colonisation · What happens: live, bring, take · To what, where: Australia, disease, land

This is a sentence of the lesson «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world» of the geography 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 (Aboriginal, British colonisation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aboriginal	aboriginal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 peoples	cc
3	Torres	Torres	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Strait	compound
4	Strait	Strait	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 peoples	compound
5	Islander	Islander	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 peoples	compound
6	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Aboriginal	conj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	aux
8	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Australia	case
10	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 years	case
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 least	case
13	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 50,000	nmod
14	50,000	50000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lived	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 brought	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 brought	cc
18	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 colonisation	amod
19	colonisation	colonisation	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brought	nsubj
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 1788	case
21	1788	1788	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 colonisation	nmod
22	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	conj
23	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brought	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 violence	punct
25	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 disease	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 taking	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 taking	det
28	taking	taking	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 disease	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 land	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 land	nmod:poss
31	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 taking	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	live	present · perfect	Aboriginal and Strait Islander peoples		Australia	year	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in australia=Location
2	bring	past	British colonisation from 1788	disease and violence and the taking of people's land			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent disease=Theme
3	take			people's land			nom taking «act transitive»: of=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, 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:geography:010-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world.lesson:10.

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, R6-punct-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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