Languages and peoples on the map, sentence 18
A nation is a group of people who feel they belong together, often sharing a language and history, but many countries hold several nations and many nations are split by borders.
Who acts: nation, people, languages, many countries, borders · What happens: be, feel, belong, share, hold, split · To what, where: group, language, several nations, many nations
This is a sentence of the lesson «Languages and peoples on the map» 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 (nation, people, languages, many countries), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 nation | det |
| 2 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 group | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 group | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 group | det |
| 5 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 people | case |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 group | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 feel | nsubj |
| 9 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 people | acl:relcl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 belong | nsubj |
| 11 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 feel | ccomp |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 belong | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sharing | punct |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 sharing | advmod |
| 15 | sharing | share | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 feel | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 language | det |
| 17 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sharing | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 history | cc |
| 19 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 language | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hold | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 hold | cc |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 countries | amod |
| 23 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hold | nsubj |
| 24 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 group | conj |
| 25 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 nations | amod |
| 26 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hold | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 nations | cc |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 nations | amod |
| 29 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 split | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 split | aux:pass |
| 31 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 hold | conj |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 borders | case |
| 33 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 split | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 group | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a nation | a group | of people | tree rules | |||
| 2 | feel | present | people | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | belong | present | languages = language | together property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | share | gerund | people not said here | a language and history | often property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | hold | present | many countries | several nations | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=Theme | ||||
| 6 | split | present · passive | borders | many nations | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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:025-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map.lesson:18.
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): no change. 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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