The people who were already there: what colonisation did, sentence 12
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have lived in Australia for at least 50,000 to 65,000 years, among the oldest continuing cultures in the world.
Who acts: Aboriginal · What happens: live, continue · To what, where: Australia
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 (Aboriginal), 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 | Aboriginal | aboriginal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 peoples | cc |
| 3 | Torres | Torres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Strait | compound |
| 4 | Strait | Strait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 peoples | compound |
| 5 | Islander | Islander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 peoples | compound |
| 6 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Aboriginal | conj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lived | aux |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Australia | case |
| 10 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 years | case |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 least | case |
| 13 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 50,000 | nmod |
| 14 | 50,000 | 50000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 65,000 | case |
| 16 | 65,000 | 65,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 50,000 | nmod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lived | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cultures | punct |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 23 cultures | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cultures | det |
| 21 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 cultures | amod |
| 22 | continuing | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 cultures | amod |
| 23 | cultures | culture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lived | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cultures | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · perfect | Aboriginal and Strait Islander peoples | Australia | year | among the oldest continuing cultures in the world | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in australia=Location | ||
| 2 | continue | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: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): 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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