How empires fell: the map of the 20th century, sentence 15
Some colonies won independence only after long wars, such as Algeria from France between 1954 and 1962, and Angola and Mozambique from Portugal in 1975.
Who acts: colonies · What happens: win · To what, where: independence
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 (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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 colonies | det |
| 2 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 won | nsubj |
| 3 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 won | obj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 wars | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 wars | case |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wars | amod |
| 8 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 won | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Algeria | punct |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 12 Algeria | case |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 such | fixed |
| 12 | Algeria | Algeria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 wars | nmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 France | case |
| 14 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Algeria | nmod |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 1954 | case |
| 16 | 1954 | 1954 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Algeria | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 1962 | cc |
| 18 | 1962 | 1962 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 1954 | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Angola | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Angola | cc |
| 21 | Angola | Angola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Algeria | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Mozambique | cc |
| 23 | Mozambique | Mozambique | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Angola | conj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Portugal | case |
| 25 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Angola | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 1975 | case |
| 27 | 1975 | 1975 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 Angola | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 won | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | some colonies | independence | after long wars such Algeria from France between 1954 and Angola from Portugal in 1975 and Mozambique | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Eventuality |
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:15.
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 ×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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