Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world, sentence 18

In the Mabo decision of 1992, Australia's High Court ruled that the land had not belonged to no one when the British came, and that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples could hold native title to it.

Who acts: High Court, land, British, Aboriginal peoples · What happens: rule, not belong, come, hold · To what, where: Mabo decision, one, native title, 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 (High Court, land, British, Aboriginal peoples), 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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