How empires fell: the map of the 20th century, sentence 13
Ghana became independent in 1957, the first colony in sub-Saharan Africa to do so.
Who acts: Ghana · What happens: become, do · To what, where: 1957
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 (Ghana), 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 | Ghana | Ghana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 became | xcomp |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1957 | case |
| 5 | 1957 | 1957 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 became | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 colony | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 colony | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 colony | amod |
| 9 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ghana | appos |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sub-Saharan | case |
| 11 | sub-Saharan | sub-Saharan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 colony | nmod |
| 12 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sub-Saharan | flat |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 colony | acl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 do | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | 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 | Ghana | in 1957 result; independent property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1957=Result | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | Ghana not said here | vn act-114-1 «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:037-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century.lesson:13.
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): no change. 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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