Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world, sentence 4

Ireland is a special case: next door to Britain, ruled by it for centuries, it became independent in 1922 and still feels the Great Famine, when a million people died.

Who acts: Ireland, door, million people · What happens: be, rule, become, feel, die · To what, where: special case, next door, Great Famine

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 (Ireland, door, million people), 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	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 case	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 case	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 case	det
4	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 case	amod
5	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 door	punct
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 door	amod
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 case	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Britain	case
10	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 door	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ruled	punct
12	ruled	rule	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 door	acl:relcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ruled	obl:agent
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 centuries	case
16	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ruled	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 became	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 became	nsubj
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 case	parataxis
20	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 became	xcomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 1922	case
22	1922	1922	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 independent	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 feels	cc
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 feels	advmod
25	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 became	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Famine	det
27	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Famine	amod
28	Famine	famine	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 feels	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 died	punct
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 died	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 million	det
32	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 people	nummod
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 died	nsubj
34	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 Famine	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 case	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Ireland	a special case and next door to Britain			tree rules
2	rule	participle		next door to Britain not said here	century		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	become	past	door			independent property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	feel	present	door not said here	the Great Famine	still		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent famine=Theme
5	die	past	million people				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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:4.

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, 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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