Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world, sentence 12

The Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840 between the British Crown and many Māori chiefs, is New Zealand's founding document; its English and Māori versions do not say the same thing about who holds power, which has caused arguments ever since; and Māori and New Zealand Sign Language are official languages by law, while English is used everywhere without a law naming it.

Who acts: Treaty, English versions, same thing, Māori, law · What happens: sign, be, not say, hold, cause, use · To what, where: Treaty, 1840, founding document, same thing, power, arguments · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Treaty, English versions, same thing, Māori), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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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