How empires fell: the map of the 20th century, sentence 2

After the First World War four old empires fell apart; after the Second, colony after colony in Asia and Africa became free, some by long campaigns like Gandhi's in India, some only after cruel wars like Algeria's.

Who acts: four old empires, colony · What happens: fell apart, 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 (four old empires, colony), 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	After	after	ADP	_	5 War	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 War	det
3	First	First	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 War	amod
4	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 War	compound
5	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 empires	nummod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 empires	amod
8	empires	empire	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	apart	apart	ADV	_	9 fell	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 colony	punct
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 Second	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Second	det
14	Second	Second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 became	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Second	punct
16	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 became	nsubj
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 colony	case
18	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 colony	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 Asia	case
20	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 colony	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Africa	cc
22	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Asia	conj
23	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fell	parataxis
24	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 became	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 campaigns	punct
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 campaigns	det
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 campaigns	case
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 campaigns	amod
29	campaigns	campaign	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fell	parataxis
30	like	like	ADP	_	31 Gandhi	case
31	Gandhi	Gandhi	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 campaigns	nmod
32	's	's	PART	_	31 Gandhi	case
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 India	case
34	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 campaigns	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 wars	punct
36	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	40 wars	det
37	only	only	ADV	_	40 wars	advmod
38	after	after	ADP	_	40 wars	case
39	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 wars	amod
40	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 campaigns	conj
41	like	like	ADP	_	42 Algeria	case
42	Algeria	Algeria	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 wars	nmod
43	's	's	PART	_	42 Algeria	case
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fell apart	present	four old empires				after the First World War	apart property	tree rules
2	become	past	colony after colony in Asia and Africa				after the Second	free 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:2.

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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