The British Isles and the United Kingdom, sentence 2
Start EU5 in 1337 and England and Scotland are rival kingdoms, while England's grip on Ireland barely reaches beyond Dublin; the kingdom of Great Britain comes only in 1707.
Who acts: you, England, grip, kingdom · What happens: start, be, reach, come, grip · To what, where: EU5, 1337, rival kingdoms, 1707, Ireland
This is a sentence of the lesson «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» 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 (you, England, grip, kingdom), 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 | Start | start | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | EU5 | EU5 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Start | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 1337 | case |
| 4 | 1337 | 1337 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Start | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kingdoms | cc |
| 6 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 kingdoms | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Scotland | cc |
| 8 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 England | conj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 kingdoms | cop |
| 10 | rival | rival | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 kingdoms | amod |
| 11 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Start | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reaches | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 reaches | mark |
| 14 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 grip | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 England | case |
| 16 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reaches | nsubj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 Ireland | case |
| 18 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 grip | nmod |
| 19 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 20 reaches | advmod |
| 20 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 kingdoms | advcl |
| 21 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 22 Dublin | case |
| 22 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 reaches | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 comes | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 kingdom | det |
| 25 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 comes | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Britain | case |
| 27 | Great | Great | PROPN | _ | 28 Britain | compound |
| 28 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 kingdom | nmod |
| 29 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 reaches | conj |
| 30 | only | only | ADV | _ | 32 1707 | advmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 1707 | case |
| 32 | 1707 | 1707 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 comes | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Start | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | imperative | you not said here | EU5 | 1337 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eu5=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is a | present | England and Scotland | rival kingdoms | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach | present | England's grip on Ireland | beyond Dublin; barely property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | present | the kingdom of Great Britain | 1707 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1707=Location | ||||
| 5 | grip | England | Ireland | nom grip «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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:008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.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): R5-strong ×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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