How empires fell: the map of the 20th century, sentence 3

Europa Universalis 5 ends in 1836, when the empires are still growing, but its colonial map is already cracking: most of Spanish America and Brazil had become independent by then.

Who acts: Europa Universalis, empires, colonial map, most · What happens: end, grow, crack, become · To what, where: 1836

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 (Europa Universalis, empires, colonial map, most), 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	Europa	europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Universalis	compound
2	Universalis	Universalis	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ends	nsubj
3	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 ends	nummod
4	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1836	case
6	1836	1836	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 ends	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 growing	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 growing	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 empires	det
10	empires	empire	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 growing	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 growing	aux
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 growing	advmod
13	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 ends	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cracking	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 cracking	cc
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 map	nmod:poss
17	colonial	colonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 map	amod
18	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cracking	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 cracking	aux
20	already	already	ADV	_	21 cracking	advmod
21	cracking	crack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 ends	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 become	punct
23	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 become	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 America	case
25	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 America	amod
26	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 most	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Brazil	cc
28	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 America	conj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 become	aux
30	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 cracking	advcl
31	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 become	xcomp
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 then	case
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 independent	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ends	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present	Europa Universalis	1836			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	grow	present · progressive	the empires		still		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	crack	present · progressive	colony's colonial map				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	past · perfect	most of Spanish America and Brazil			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:3.

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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