How empires fell: the map of the 20th century, sentence 0

In 1914 a world map looked like a few huge patches of colour: European empires, with the USA and Japan, ruled most of the land and people on Earth, and the British Empire alone later covered about a quarter of the world's land.

Who acts: world map, European empires, British Empire · What happens: look, rule, cover · To what, where: most, quarter

This is a sentence of the lesson «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» 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 (world map, European empires, British Empire), 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	_	2 1914	case
2	1914	1914	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 looked	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 map	det
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 map	compound
5	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 patches	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 patches	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 patches	amod
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 patches	amod
11	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 looked	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 colour	case
13	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 patches	nmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 empires	punct
15	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 empires	amod
16	empires	empire	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 patches	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 USA	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 USA	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 USA	det
20	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 empires	appos
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Japan	cc
22	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 USA	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ruled	punct
24	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 empires	acl:relcl
25	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 ruled	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 land	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 land	det
28	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 most	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 people	cc
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 land	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 Earth	case
32	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 people	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 covered	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 covered	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Empire	det
36	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Empire	amod
37	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 covered	nsubj
38	alone	alone	ADV	_	37 Empire	advmod
39	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 covered	advmod
40	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 ruled	conj
41	about	about	ADV	_	43 quarter	advmod
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 quarter	det
43	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 covered	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	48 land	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 world	det
46	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 land	nmod:poss
47	's	's	PART	_	46 world	case
48	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 quarter	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	a world map		like a few huge patches of colour and European empires; in 1914	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in 1914=Theme
2	rule	past	European empires not said here	most of the land and people on Earth		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme
3	cover	past	the British Empire	a quarter of the world's land	late property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent quarter=Destination

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:037-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century.lesson:0.

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 ×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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