How empires fell: the map of the 20th century, sentence 17

Britain handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997 and Portugal handed Macau back in 1999, among the last pieces of the old European empires in Asia.

Who acts: Britain, Portugal · What happens: hand back · To what, where: Hong, China, 1997, Macau, 1999

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 (Britain, Portugal), 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	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 handed	nsubj
2	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Hong	Hong	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 handed	obj
4	Kong	Kong	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Hong	flat
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 handed	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 China	case
7	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 handed	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 1997	case
9	1997	1997	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 handed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 handed	cc
11	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 handed	nsubj
12	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 handed	conj
13	Macau	Macau	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 handed	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	12 handed	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 1999	case
16	1999	1999	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 handed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pieces	punct
18	among	among	ADP	_	21 pieces	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pieces	det
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pieces	amod
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 handed	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 empires	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 empires	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 empires	amod
25	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 empires	amod
26	empires	empire	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 pieces	nmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 Asia	case
28	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 empires	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 handed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand back	past	Britain	Hong	China	1997			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hong=Theme to china=Destination
2	hand back	past	Portugal	Macau		1999		among the last pieces of the old European empires in Asia	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent macau=Theme

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:17.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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