Borders: why they are where they are, sentence 11

Colonial borders often split one people between several countries, or put rival peoples into one country; the Somali people, for example, live in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti.

Who acts: Colonial borders, Somali people · What happens: split, put, live · To what, where: one people, rival peoples, one country, Somalia

This is a sentence of the lesson «Borders: why they are where they are» 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 (Colonial borders, Somali 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	Colonial	colonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 borders	amod
2	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 split	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 split	advmod
4	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 people	nummod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 split	obj
7	between	between	ADP	_	9 countries	case
8	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 countries	amod
9	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 split	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 put	cc
12	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 split	conj
13	rival	rival	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 peoples	amod
14	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 put	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 country	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 country	nummod
17	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 people	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
20	Somali	somali	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 people	amod
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 live	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 example	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 example	case
24	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 live	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 live	punct
26	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 split	parataxis
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 Somalia	case
28	Somalia	Somalia	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 live	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Ethiopia	punct
30	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Somalia	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Kenya	punct
32	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Somalia	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 Djibouti	cc
34	Djibouti	Djibouti	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Somalia	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 split	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	split	past	Colonial borders	one people			between several countries; often property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	put	past	Colonial borders not said here		rival peoples	one country		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent people=Goal
3	live	present	the Somali people			Somalia and Ethiopia and Kenya and Djibouti	for example	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in somalia=Location

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:031-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are.lesson:11.

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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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