Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew, sentence 3

Russian serfs were bound to the land and could be sold with it, Irish Catholics lost most of their land to settlers, and Siberian peoples lost their hunting grounds to fur traders.

Who acts: Russian serfs, Irish Catholics, Siberian peoples · What happens: be, sell, lose · To what, where: most, hunting grounds

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 (Russian serfs, Irish Catholics, Siberian peoples), 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	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 serfs	amod
2	serfs	serf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bound	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bound	cop
4	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 land	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 land	det
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bound	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sold	cc
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 sold	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 sold	aux:pass
11	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bound	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sold	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lost	punct
15	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Catholics	amod
16	Catholics	Catholic	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 lost	nsubj
17	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bound	parataxis
18	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 lost	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 land	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 land	nmod:poss
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 most	nmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 settlers	case
23	settlers	settler	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lost	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lost	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lost	cc
26	Siberian	Siberian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 peoples	amod
27	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 lost	nsubj
28	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bound	conj
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 grounds	nmod:poss
30	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 grounds	compound
31	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	28 lost	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 traders	case
33	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 traders	compound
34	traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 lost	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bound	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Russian serfs		to the land; bound property	tree rules
2	sell	could · passive	Russian serfs not said here		with land	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»
3	lose	past	Irish Catholics	most of Catholics's land	to settlers	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality
4	lose	past	Siberian peoples	people's hunting grounds	to fur traders	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grounds=Eventuality

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:3.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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