Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world, sentence 8

Canada's Indigenous peoples are the First Nations, the Inuit and the Métis, and for over a century many of their children were taken to residential schools, the last of which closed in 1996.

Who acts: Indigenous peoples · What happens: be, take, close · To what, where: First Nations, many, residential schools

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 (Indigenous peoples), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

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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