Britain and Ireland: a short story, sentence 3
The United Kingdom grew from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and by 1900 Britain ruled a huge empire, which spread English but also ruled many people without their consent.
Who acts: United Kingdom, Britain, huge empire, people · What happens: grow, rule, spread, consent · To what, where: huge empire, English, many 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 (United Kingdom, Britain, huge empire, 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 Kingdom | det |
| 2 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 3 Kingdom | flat |
| 3 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 England | case |
| 6 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Wales | punct |
| 8 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 England | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Scotland | punct |
| 10 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 England | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Ireland | cc |
| 12 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 England | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ruled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ruled | cc |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 1900 | case |
| 16 | 1900 | 1900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 ruled | obl |
| 17 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ruled | nsubj |
| 18 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 empire | det |
| 20 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 empire | amod |
| 21 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ruled | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 spread | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 spread | nsubj |
| 24 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 empire | acl:relcl |
| 25 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 spread | obj |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 ruled | cc |
| 27 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 ruled | advmod |
| 28 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 spread | conj |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 people | amod |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 ruled | obj |
| 31 | without | without | ADP | _ | 33 consent | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 consent | nmod:poss |
| 33 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ruled | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the United Kingdom | from England and Wales and Scotland and Ireland | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from england=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rule | past | Britain | a huge empire | by 1900 | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Theme | |||
| 3 | spread | past | a huge empire | English | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location english=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rule | past | a huge empire not said here | many people | without people's consent | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent people=Result | |||
| 5 | 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:3.
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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