Britain and Ireland: a short story, sentence 15

From 1845 a potato disease destroyed Ireland's main food; about a million people died in the Great Famine and over a million emigrated, many to America.

Who acts: potato disease, million people, million · What happens: destroy, die, emigrate · To what, where: main food, 1845

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 (potato disease, million people, million), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 1845	case
2	1845	1845	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 destroyed	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 disease	det
4	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 disease	compound
5	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 destroyed	nsubj
6	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 died	parataxis
7	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 food	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Ireland	case
9	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 food	amod
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 destroyed	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 destroyed	punct
12	about	about	ADV	_	14 million	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 million	det
14	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 people	nummod
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 died	nsubj
16	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 Famine	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Famine	det
19	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Famine	amod
20	Famine	famine	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 died	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 million	cc
22	over	over	ADV	_	24 million	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 million	det
24	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 emigrated	nsubj
25	emigrated	emigrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 died	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 emigrated	punct
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 million	appos
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 America	case
29	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 many	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 destroyed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	destroy	past	a potato disease	Ireland's main food	1845		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
2	die	past	million people			in the Great Famine	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in famine=Attribute
3	emigrate	past	a million				vn escape-51.1-1 «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:037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.lesson:15.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/15/