Britain and Ireland: a short story, sentence 13
The British Empire spread the English language and British laws, but it also took land and wealth and ruled people without their consent.
Who acts: British Empire, it, people · What happens: spread, take, rule, consent · To what, where: English language, land, people
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 (British Empire, it, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Empire | det |
| 2 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Empire | amod |
| 3 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | nsubj |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 language | det |
| 6 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 language | amod |
| 7 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 laws | cc |
| 9 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 laws | amod |
| 10 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 language | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 took | advmod |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spread | conj |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wealth | cc |
| 18 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 land | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ruled | cc |
| 20 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ruled | obj |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 24 consent | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 consent | nmod:poss |
| 24 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ruled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the British Empire | the English language and British laws | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location language=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | it | land and wealth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rule | past | people | without people's consent | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent people=Result | ||||
| 4 | consent | people | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:13.
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, R8-pos-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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