Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world, sentence 14
During the Great Famine of 1845 to 1852, when the potato crop failed but other food was still shipped out of Ireland, about a million people in Ireland died and over a million emigrated, and the island still has fewer people today than in 1841.
Who acts: million people, million, island · What happens: fail, ship out, die, emigrate, have · To what, where: potato crop, other food, Ireland, fewer people
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 (million people, million, island), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 Famine | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Famine | det |
| 3 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Famine | amod |
| 4 | Famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 failed | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 1845 | case |
| 6 | 1845 | 1845 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Famine | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 1852 | case |
| 8 | 1852 | 1852 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 1845 | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Famine | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 failed | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crop | det |
| 12 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crop | compound |
| 13 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 failed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 shipped | cc |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 food | amod |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shipped | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 shipped | aux:pass |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 shipped | advmod |
| 20 | shipped | ship | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 failed | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 Ireland | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Ireland | case |
| 23 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 shipped | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 people | punct |
| 25 | about | about | ADV | _ | 27 million | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 people | det |
| 27 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 people | nummod |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 died | nsubj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Ireland | case |
| 30 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 people | nmod |
| 31 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 shipped | parataxis |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 emigrated | cc |
| 33 | over | over | ADV | _ | 35 million | advmod |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 million | det |
| 35 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 emigrated | nsubj |
| 36 | emigrated | emigrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 died | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 has | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 has | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 island | det |
| 40 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 has | nsubj |
| 41 | still | still | ADV | _ | 42 has | advmod |
| 42 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 died | conj |
| 43 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 44 people | amod |
| 44 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 has | obj |
| 45 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 has | obl:unmarked |
| 46 | than | than | ADP | _ | 48 1841 | case |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 1841 | case |
| 48 | 1841 | 1841 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 42 has | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 died | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | participle · passive | the potato crop | during the Great Famine of 1845 to 1852 | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ship out | past · passive | other food | Ireland | still | tree rules | |||
| 3 | die | past | a million people in Ireland | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | emigrate | past | a million | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | present | the island | fewer people | still; today | than 1841 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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:14.
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 ×3, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world/14/