Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew, sentence 13

English and later British rulers took land from Irish Catholics and gave it to Protestant settlers, especially in the 1600s, so that by the 1700s Catholics owned only a small share of the land.

Who acts: English rulers, Catholics · What happens: take, give, own, share · To what, where: land, Irish Catholics, Protestant settlers, 1600s, small share

This is a sentence of the lesson «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» 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 (English rulers, Catholics), 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	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rulers	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 British	cc
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 British	advmod
4	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 English	conj
5	rulers	ruler	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 Catholics	case
9	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Catholics	amod
10	Catholics	Catholic	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 took	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 settlers	case
15	Protestant	protestant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 settlers	amod
16	settlers	settler	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gave	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 1600s	punct
18	especially	especially	ADV	_	21 1600s	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 1600s	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 1600s	det
21	1600s	1600	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	12 gave	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 that	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	_	29 owned	mark
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 so	fixed
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 1700s	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 1700s	det
27	1700s	1700	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	29 owned	obl
28	Catholics	Catholic	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 owned	nsubj
29	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gave	advcl
30	only	only	ADV	_	33 share	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 share	det
32	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 share	amod
33	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 owned	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 land	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 land	det
36	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 share	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	English rulers	land		Irish Catholics		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent land=Theme from catholic=Initial_Location
2	give	past	English rulers not said here	land	Protestant settlers	the 1600s		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to settler=Recipient
3	own	past	Catholics	a small share of the land			by the 1700s	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot share=Theme
4	share			the land				nom share «possession transitive»: of=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:034-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew.lesson:13.

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 ×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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