The people who were already there: what colonisation did, sentence 13

When Britain began a colony in Australia in 1788 it treated the land as belonging to no one, an idea Australia's High Court rejected in the Mabo decision of 1992.

Who acts: Britain, colony, High Court · What happens: begin, treat, belong, reject · To what, where: colony, Australia, land, one, idea, Mabo decision

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 (Britain, colony, High Court), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 began	mark
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 treated	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 colony	det
5	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Australia	case
7	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 colony	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 1788	case
9	1788	1788	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 began	obl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 treated	nsubj
11	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 land	det
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 treated	obj
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 belonging	mark
15	belonging	belong	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 treated	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 one	case
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 belonging	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 idea	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 idea	det
21	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 one	appos
22	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Court	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 Australia	case
24	High	High	PROPN	_	25 Court	compound
25	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 rejected	nsubj
26	rejected	reject	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 idea	acl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 decision	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 decision	det
29	Mabo	Mabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 decision	compound
30	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rejected	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 1992	case
32	1992	1992	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 decision	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 treated	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Britain	a colony		Australia	in 1788	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Eventuality
2	treat	past	colony	the land				vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Recipient
3	belong	gerund	colony not said here		no one			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	reject	past	Australia's High Court	a idea not said here		the Mabo decision of 1992		vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=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: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): no change. 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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