The people who were already there: what colonisation did, sentence 7
Far more deadly diseases travelled from Europe to the Americas than the other way, because Europeans had long lived close to farm animals and crowded towns where such diseases arose.
Who acts: deadly diseases, Europeans, such diseases · What happens: travel, live, arise · To what, where: Americas, Europe
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 (deadly diseases, Europeans, such diseases), 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 more | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 deadly | advmod |
| 3 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 diseases | amod |
| 4 | diseases | disease | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 travelled | nsubj |
| 5 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Europe | case |
| 7 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 travelled | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Americas | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Americas | det |
| 10 | Americas | AMERICAS | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 travelled | obl |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 way | amod |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 travelled | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 travelled | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 lived | mark |
| 17 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 lived | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lived | aux |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 lived | advmod |
| 20 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 travelled | advcl |
| 21 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 lived | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 animals | case |
| 23 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 animals | compound |
| 24 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 close | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 towns | cc |
| 26 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 towns | amod |
| 27 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 animals | conj |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 arose | advmod |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 diseases | amod |
| 30 | diseases | disease | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 arose | nsubj |
| 31 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 towns | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | deadly diseases | the Americas | Europe | than the other way | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to americas=Destination | ||
| 2 | live | past · perfect | Europeans | close, long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | arise | past | such diseases | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:7.
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 ×2, 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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