Canada: a short story, sentence 0
For thousands of years Canada has been home to First Nations and Inuit peoples, with many languages and ways of life; later the Métis, of mixed First Nations and European roots, grew up in the fur trade, and all three are still a big part of the country today.
Who acts: Canada, Métis, three · What happens: be, mix, grow up · To what, where: fur trade, big part
This is a sentence of the lesson «Canada: 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 (Canada, Métis, three), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 thousands | case |
| 2 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 grew | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 thousands | nmod |
| 5 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 home | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 home | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 home | cop |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 36 grew | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Nations | case |
| 10 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 Nations | amod |
| 11 | Nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 home | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 peoples | cc |
| 13 | Inuit | inuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 peoples | compound |
| 14 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Nations | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 languages | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 languages | case |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 languages | amod |
| 18 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Nations | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ways | cc |
| 20 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 languages | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 life | case |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ways | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 Métis | punct |
| 24 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 Métis | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Métis | det |
| 26 | Métis | Métis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 grew | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Nations | punct |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Nations | case |
| 29 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 Nations | amod |
| 30 | First | First | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 31 Nations | amod |
| 31 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 Métis | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 roots | cc |
| 33 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 roots | amod |
| 34 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 Métis | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 thousands | punct |
| 36 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 grew | compound:prt |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 trade | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 trade | det |
| 40 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 trade | compound |
| 41 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 grew | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 part | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 part | cc |
| 44 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 three | det:predet |
| 45 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 50 part | nsubj |
| 46 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 part | cop |
| 47 | still | still | ADV | _ | 50 part | advmod |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 part | det |
| 49 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 part | amod |
| 50 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 grew | conj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 country | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 country | det |
| 53 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 part | nmod |
| 54 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 part | obl:unmarked |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 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 | is | present · perfect | Canada | to First Nations and Inuit peoples and many languages and ways of life; home property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mix | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | grow up | past | the Métis of mixed First Nations and European roots | the fur trade | for thousands of years | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in trade=Location | |||
| 4 | is a | present | all three | a big part | still; today | of the country | tree rules |
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:039-canada-a-short-story.lesson:0.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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