The people who were already there: what colonisation did, sentence 14

British colonisation brought disease, violent frontier killings and the taking of land to Aboriginal peoples, and later many Aboriginal children were taken from their families; they are called the Stolen Generations.

Who acts: British colonisation · What happens: bring, take, call, steal · To what, where: disease, many Aboriginal children, families, children, land · 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 (British colonisation), 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	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 colonisation	amod
2	colonisation	colonisation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 killings	punct
6	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 killings	amod
7	frontier	frontier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 killings	compound
8	killings	killing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 disease	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 taking	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 taking	det
11	taking	taking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disease	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 land	case
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taking	nmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 peoples	case
15	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 peoples	amod
16	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 taking	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 taken	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 children	cc
19	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 taken	advmod
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 children	amod
21	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 children	amod
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 taken	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 taken	aux:pass
24	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 brought	conj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 families	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 families	nmod:poss
27	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 taken	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 called	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 called	nsubj:pass
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 called	aux:pass
31	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 brought	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Generations	det
33	Stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 Generations	amod
34	Generations	generation	PROPN	Number=Plur	31 called	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	British colonisation	disease and violent frontier killings and the taking of land to Aboriginal peoples			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent disease=Theme
2	take	past · passive		many Aboriginal children	children's families	late property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from family=Initial_Location
3	call	present · passive		children = child			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	steal	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take			land		to Aboriginal peoples	nom taking «act transitive»: of=patient to=obl

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:14.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5. 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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