The people who were already there: what colonisation did, sentence 1

Imagine new neighbours moving into your street and announcing that your house is "unclaimed" because they had not seen it before: that is how colonisers often treated land that was already someone's home.

Who acts: you, new neighbours, neighbours, that, colonisers, land · What happens: imagine, move, announce, be, not see, treated · To what, where: new neighbours, street, house, land, home · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, new neighbours, neighbours, that), 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	Imagine	imagine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 neighbours	amod
3	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Imagine	obj
4	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 neighbours	acl
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 street	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 street	nmod:poss
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moving	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 announcing	cc
9	announcing	announce	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 moving	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 unclaimed	mark
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 house	nmod:poss
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 unclaimed	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 unclaimed	cop
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 unclaimed	punct
15	unclaimed	unclaim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 announcing	ccomp
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 unclaimed	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 seen	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seen	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 seen	advmod
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 unclaimed	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seen	obj
23	before	before	ADV	_	21 seen	advmod
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 how	punct
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 how	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 how	cop
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Imagine	ccomp
28	colonisers	coloniser	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 treated	nsubj
29	often	often	ADV	_	30 treated	advmod
30	treated	treated	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 how	ccomp
31	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 treated	obj
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 home	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 home	cop
34	already	already	ADV	_	37 home	advmod
35	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	37 home	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 someone	case
37	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 land	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Imagine	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	imagine	imperative	you not said here	new neighbours			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot neighbour=Theme
2	move	gerund	new neighbours not said here		your street		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into street=Trajectory
3	announce speech: other	gerund	new neighbours not said here				vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present · passive		your house		unclaim property	tree rules
5	not see	past · perfect	neighbours = neighbour	house		before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	is	present	that			how property	tree rules
7	treated	past	colonisers	land		often property	tree rules
8	is a	past	land	someone's home			tree rules

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:1.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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