How empires fell: the map of the 20th century, sentence 9
Borders such as those of Iraq, Syria and Jordan were largely drawn by Britain and France after the First World War.
Who acts: Britain · What happens: draw · To what, where: Borders
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), 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 | Borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 6 Iraq | case |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 2 such | fixed |
| 4 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 Borders | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Iraq | case |
| 6 | Iraq | Iraq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 those | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Syria | punct |
| 8 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Iraq | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Jordan | cc |
| 10 | Jordan | Jordan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Iraq | conj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 drawn | aux:pass |
| 12 | largely | largely | ADV | _ | 13 drawn | advmod |
| 13 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Britain | case |
| 15 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 drawn | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 France | cc |
| 17 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Britain | conj |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 War | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 War | det |
| 20 | First | First | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 War | amod |
| 21 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 War | compound |
| 22 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 drawn | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past · passive | Britain and France | Borders those | after the First World War | largely property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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:9.
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 ×2. 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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