Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world, sentence 16

English is spoken in Caribbean countries such as Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago, most of whose people descend from Africans enslaved on British sugar plantations.

Who acts: most · What happens: speak, descend, enslave · To what, where: English, Caribbean countries, Africans, British sugar plantations · 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 (most), 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	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spoken	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spoken	aux:pass
3	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 countries	case
5	Caribbean	caribbean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 countries	amod
6	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spoken	obl
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	9 Jamaica	case
8	as	as	ADP	_	7 such	fixed
9	Jamaica	Jamaica	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 countries	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Barbados	punct
11	Barbados	Barbados	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Jamaica	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Trinidad	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Trinidad	cc
14	Trinidad	Trinidad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Jamaica	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Tobago	cc
16	Tobago	Tobago	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Trinidad	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 descend	punct
18	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 descend	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 people	case
20	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	21 people	nmod:poss
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 most	nmod
22	descend	descend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spoken	conj
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 Africans	case
24	Africans	african	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 descend	obl
25	enslaved	enslave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 Africans	acl
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 plantations	case
27	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 plantations	amod
28	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 plantations	compound
29	plantations	plantation	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 enslaved	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoken	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present · passive		English	Caribbean countries such Jamaica and Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago	tree rules
2	descend	infinitive	most of people		Africans	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from african=Location
3	enslave	participle		Africans not said here	British sugar plantations	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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, 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:16.

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): R7-rel-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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