Explorers: Cook and the Pacific, sentence 11
In 1770 Cook landed at Botany Bay and claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain, though Aboriginal people had lived there for over 50,000 years.
Who acts: Cook, Aboriginal people · What happens: land, claim, live · To what, where: 1770, Botany Bay, east coast
This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Cook and the Pacific» of the history 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 (Cook, Aboriginal people), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Cook | case |
| 2 | 1770 | 1770 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 landed | obl |
| 3 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 landed | nsubj |
| 4 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Bay | case |
| 6 | Botany | Botany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bay | compound |
| 7 | Bay | Bay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 landed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 claimed | cc |
| 9 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 landed | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 coast | det |
| 11 | east | east | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 coast | amod |
| 12 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 claimed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Australia | case |
| 14 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 coast | nmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 Britain | case |
| 16 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 claimed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lived | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 lived | mark |
| 19 | Aboriginal | aboriginal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 people | amod |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lived | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lived | aux |
| 22 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 claimed | advcl |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 lived | advmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 years | case |
| 25 | over | over | ADV | _ | 26 50,000 | advmod |
| 26 | 50,000 | 50000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 years | nummod |
| 27 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lived | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | Cook | 1770 | Botany Bay | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | claim speech: other | past | Cook not said here | the east coast of Australia | for Britain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent coast=Topic | |||
| 3 | live | past · perfect | Aboriginal people | there | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:history:028-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific.lesson:11.
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 ×3, R7-rel-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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