Borders: why they are where they are, sentence 12
When British India became independent in 1947, it was split into India and Pakistan, with a border drawn in a few weeks.
Who acts: British India · What happens: become, split, draw · To what, where: border, India
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 (British India), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 became | mark |
| 2 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 India | amod |
| 3 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 split | advcl |
| 5 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1947 | case |
| 7 | 1947 | 1947 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 independent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 split | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 split | aux:pass |
| 11 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 India | case |
| 13 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 split | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Pakistan | cc |
| 15 | Pakistan | Pakistan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 India | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 border | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 border | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 border | det |
| 19 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 split | obl |
| 20 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 border | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 weeks | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 weeks | det |
| 23 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 weeks | amod |
| 24 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 drawn | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 split | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | British India | independent property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | split | past · passive | border | into India and Pakistan result; with a border | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: subject=Patient into india=Result with border=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | draw | participle | a border not said here | week | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:12.
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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