The people who were already there: what colonisation did, sentence 15

In 1840 many Māori chiefs and the British Crown signed the Treaty of Waitangi, but the English and Māori texts said different things about who held power.

Who acts: many Māori chiefs, English texts, different things · What happens: sign, say, hold · To what, where: 1840, different things, power · 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 (many Māori chiefs, English texts, different things), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 chiefs	case
2	1840	1840	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 signed	obl
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chiefs	amod
4	Māori	Māori	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chiefs	compound
5	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 signed	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Crown	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Crown	det
8	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Crown	amod
9	Crown	Crown	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chiefs	conj
10	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Treaty	det
12	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 signed	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Waitangi	case
14	Waitangi	Waitangi	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Treaty	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 texts	det
18	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 texts	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Māori	cc
20	Māori	Māori	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 English	conj
21	texts	text	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 signed	conj
23	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 things	amod
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 said	obj
25	about	about	SCONJ	_	27 held	mark
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 held	nsubj
27	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 things	acl
28	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 held	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 signed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sign	past	many Māori chiefs and the British Crown	1840	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent treaty=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the English texts	different things	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
3	hold	past	different things	power	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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:15.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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