How empires fell: the map of the 20th century, sentence 10

Most Spanish colonies in the Americas, and Portuguese Brazil, became independent between about 1810 and 1825, with leaders such as Simón Bolívar.

Who acts: Most Spanish colonies · What happens: become

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 (Most Spanish colonies), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 colonies	amod
2	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 colonies	amod
3	colonies	colony	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 became	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 Americas	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Americas	det
6	Americas	Americas	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 colonies	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Portuguese	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Portuguese	cc
9	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 colonies	conj
10	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Portuguese	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 colonies	punct
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 became	xcomp
14	between	between	ADP	_	16 1810	case
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 1810	advmod
16	1810	1810	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 independent	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 1825	cc
18	1825	1825	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 1810	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 leaders	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 leaders	case
21	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 became	obl
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	25 Bolívar	case
23	as	as	ADP	_	22 such	fixed
24	Simón	Simón	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Bolívar	compound
25	Bolívar	Bolívar	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 leaders	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 leaders	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Most Spanish colonies in the Americas and Portuguese					with leaders such Simón Bolívar; independent property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:10.

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. 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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