The people who were already there: what colonisation did, sentence 4
But this is not only history: about 476 million Indigenous people live today, and many are bringing back their languages, rights and lands.
Who acts: this, million Indigenous people, many · What happens: not be, live, bring back · To what, where: only history, languages
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 (this, million Indigenous people, many), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 history | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 history | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 history | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 history | advmod |
| 5 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 history | amod |
| 6 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 million | advmod |
| 9 | 476 | 476 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 million | compound |
| 10 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 people | nummod |
| 11 | Indigenous | Indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 people | amod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 live | nsubj |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 history | parataxis |
| 14 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 live | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bringing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bringing | cc |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bringing | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 bringing | aux |
| 19 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 live | conj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 bringing | advmod |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 languages | nmod:poss |
| 22 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bringing | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rights | punct |
| 24 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 languages | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 lands | cc |
| 26 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 languages | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 history | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | this | only history | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | million Indigenous people | today | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring back | present · progressive | many | people's languages and rights and lands | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent language=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:4.
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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