Britain and Ireland: a short story, sentence 12

By 1900 Britain ruled about a quarter of the world's land and people, from India to Africa and Canada, and most colonies became independent in the 1900s.

Who acts: Britain, most colonies · What happens: rule, become · To what, where: quarter, Africa, India, 1900s

This is a sentence of the lesson «Britain and Ireland: a short story» 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 (Britain, most colonies), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 1900	case
2	1900	1900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 ruled	obl
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ruled	nsubj
4	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 quarter	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 quarter	det
7	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ruled	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 land	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 land	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 world	case
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quarter	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 people	cc
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 land	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 India	punct
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 India	case
17	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ruled	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Africa	case
19	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ruled	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Canada	cc
21	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Africa	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 became	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 became	cc
24	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 colonies	amod
25	colonies	colony	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 became	nsubj
26	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ruled	conj
27	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 became	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 1900s	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 1900s	det
30	1900s	1900	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	26 became	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ruled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	Britain	a quarter of the world's land and people	Africa and Canada	India		by 1900	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=Theme
2	become	past	most colonies					in the 1900s result; independent property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1900=Result

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:037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.lesson:12.

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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