The people who were already there: what colonisation did, sentence 8

Under the Spanish encomienda system, colonists were given the right to the labour and tribute of Indigenous people, and the friar Bartolomé de las Casas wrote fiercely against its cruelty.

Who acts: friar · What happens: give, write · To what, where: colonists, Spanish encomienda system

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 (friar), 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	Under	under	ADP	_	5 system	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 system	det
3	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 system	amod
4	encomienda	encomienda	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 system	compound
5	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 given	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 system	punct
7	colonists	colonist	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 given	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 given	aux:pass
9	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 right	det
11	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 given	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 labour	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 labour	det
14	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 right	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tribute	cc
16	tribute	tribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 labour	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 people	case
18	Indigenous	Indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 people	amod
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 labour	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wrote	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wrote	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 friar	det
23	friar	friar	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wrote	nsubj
24	Bartolomé	Bartolomé	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 friar	appos
25	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	24 Bartolomé	flat:foreign
26	las	la	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 Bartolomé	flat
27	Casas	casa	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 Bartolomé	flat
28	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 given	conj
29	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	28 wrote	advmod
30	against	against	ADP	_	32 cruelty	case
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 cruelty	nmod:poss
32	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wrote	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 given	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		colonists		the Spanish encomienda system			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient right=Theme
2	write	past	the friar					against friar's cruelty; fiercely property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:8.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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