Britain and Ireland: a short story, sentence 5
Britain was settled over time by Celtic Britons, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans, and in modern times by people from all over the world.
Who acts: Celtic Britons · What happens: settle · To what, where: Britain
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 (Celtic Britons), 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 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 settled | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 settled | aux:pass |
| 3 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 settled | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Britons | case |
| 7 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Britons | amod |
| 8 | Britons | briton | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 settled | obl:agent |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Romans | punct |
| 10 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Britons | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Saxons | punct |
| 12 | Anglo | Anglo | X | _ | 14 Saxons | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Anglo | punct |
| 14 | Saxons | Saxon | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Britons | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Vikings | punct |
| 16 | Vikings | viking | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Britons | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Normans | cc |
| 18 | Normans | Norman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Britons | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 times | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 times | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 times | case |
| 22 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 times | amod |
| 23 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 settled | obl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 people | case |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 settled | obl:agent |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 world | case |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 30 world | advmod |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 world | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 world | det |
| 30 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 people | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 settled | 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 | settle | past · passive | Celtic Britons and Romans and Anglo Saxons and Vikings and Normans | Britain | time | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme subject=Location |
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:5.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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