The people who were already there: what colonisation did, sentence 0

Europa Universalis 5 often paints the Americas, Australia and much of Africa as empty land waiting for colonists, but every valley and coast already had people with their own nations, laws, farms and cities.

Who acts: Europa Universalis, empty land, valley · What happens: paint, wait, have · To what, where: Americas, people

This is a sentence of the lesson «The people who were already there: what colonisation did» 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 (Europa Universalis, empty land, valley), 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	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Universalis	compound
2	Universalis	Universalis	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 paints	nsubj
3	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Universalis	flat
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 paints	advmod
5	paints	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Americas	det
7	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 paints	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Australia	punct
9	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Americas	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 much	cc
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Americas	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Africa	case
13	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 much	nmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 land	case
15	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 land	amod
16	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paints	obl
17	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 land	acl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 colonists	case
19	colonists	colonist	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 waiting	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 valley	det
23	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 coast	cc
25	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 valley	conj
26	already	already	ADV	_	27 had	advmod
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paints	conj
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 had	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 nations	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 nations	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 nations	amod
32	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 people	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 laws	punct
34	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 nations	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 farms	punct
36	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 laws	conj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 cities	cc
38	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 laws	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 paints	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	paint	present	Europa Universalis	the Americas and Australia	as empty land; often property	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent americas=Theme as land=Attribute
2	wait	gerund	empty land not said here		for colonists	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	every valley and coast	people	with valley's own nations and laws and farms and cities	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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:036-the-people-who-were-already-there.lesson:0.

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 ×3, 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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