Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth, sentence 4

Other clubs join countries by history or by place: the Commonwealth links many lands once in the British Empire, NATO is a promise to defend each other, and the African Union links the whole of Africa.

Who acts: Other clubs, Commonwealth, NATO, African Union · What happens: join, link, be, defend · To what, where: countries, many lands, promise, each, whole

This is a sentence of the lesson «Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth» 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 (Other clubs, Commonwealth, NATO, African Union), 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	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 clubs	amod
2	clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 join	nsubj
3	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 join	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 history	case
6	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 join	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 place	cc
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 place	case
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 join	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 links	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Commonwealth	det
12	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 links	nsubj
13	links	link	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 join	parataxis
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lands	amod
15	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 links	obj
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 links	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 Empire	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Empire	det
19	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Empire	amod
20	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 once	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 promise	punct
22	NATO	NATO	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 promise	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 promise	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 promise	det
25	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 links	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 defend	mark
27	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 promise	acl
28	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	27 defend	obj
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 each	fixed
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 links	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 links	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Union	det
33	African	African	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Union	compound
34	Union	Union	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 links	nsubj
35	links	link	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 links	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 whole	det
37	whole	whole	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 links	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Africa	case
39	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 whole	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 join	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	join	present	Other clubs	countries	by history	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient
2	link	present	the Commonwealth	many lands	once property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient
3	is a	present	NATO	a promise		tree rules
4	defend	to-infinitive	the Commonwealth not said here	each		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Beneficiary
5	link	present	the African Union	the whole of Africa		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=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:038-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth.lesson:4.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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