The people who were already there: what colonisation did, sentence 17
Indigenous peoples are still here, about 476 million people across about 90 countries, and many are reviving their languages, rights and land; the UN adopted a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007.
Who acts: Indigenous peoples, many, UN · What happens: be, revive, adopt · To what, where: languages, Declaration, Rights
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 (Indigenous peoples, many, UN), 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 | Indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 peoples | amod |
| 2 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 here | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 here | cop |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 here | advmod |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 people | punct |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 million | advmod |
| 8 | 476 | 476 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 million | compound |
| 9 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 people | nummod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 here | parataxis |
| 11 | across | across | ADP | _ | 14 countries | case |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 90 | advmod |
| 13 | 90 | 90 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 countries | nummod |
| 14 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 people | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reviving | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 reviving | cc |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 reviving | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 reviving | aux |
| 19 | reviving | revive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 here | conj |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 languages | nmod:poss |
| 21 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 reviving | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rights | punct |
| 23 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 languages | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 land | cc |
| 25 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 languages | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 adopted | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 UN | det |
| 28 | UN | UN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 adopted | nsubj |
| 29 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 here | parataxis |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 Declaration | det |
| 31 | Declaration | declaration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 adopted | obj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 Rights | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Rights | det |
| 34 | Rights | Right | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 Declaration | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Peoples | case |
| 36 | Indigenous | Indigenous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Peoples | compound |
| 37 | Peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 Rights | nmod |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 2007 | case |
| 39 | 2007 | 2007 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 adopted | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 here | 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 | is | present | Indigenous peoples | still | here property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | revive | present · progressive | many | people's languages and rights and land | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent language=Patient | ||||
| 3 | adopt | past | the UN | a Declaration | the Rights of Indigenous Peoples | in 2007 | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent declaration=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:17.
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. 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/36-the-people-who-were-already-there/17/