How empires fell: the map of the 20th century, sentence 1

Within one lifetime those patches broke into many small ones, like a giant jigsaw spilled on the floor and put back as dozens of separate pictures.

Who acts: patches · What happens: break, spill, put back · To what, where: giant jigsaw, floor

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 (patches), 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	Within	within	ADP	_	3 lifetime	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 lifetime	nummod
3	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broke	obl
4	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 patches	det
5	patches	patch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 broke	nsubj
6	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 ones	case
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 broke	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 jigsaw	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 jigsaw	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 jigsaw	det
14	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 jigsaw	amod
15	jigsaw	jigsaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broke	obl
16	spilled	spill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 jigsaw	acl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 floor	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 floor	det
19	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spilled	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
21	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 spilled	conj
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 put	advmod
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 dozens	case
24	dozens	dozen	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 put	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 pictures	case
26	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pictures	amod
27	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 dozens	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 broke	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break	past	that patches			within one lifetime; into many small ones result; like a giant jigsaw	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into one=Result
2	spill	participle		a giant jigsaw not said here	the floor		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location
3	put back	past				as dozens of separate pictures	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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:037-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century.lesson:1.

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. 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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