Canada: a short story, sentence 1

In 1608 the French founded Québec and traded furs with First Nations by canoe across huge distances; beaver fur for European hats was so valuable that the beaver became a symbol of Canada.

Who acts: French, beaver fur, beaver · What happens: found, trade, be, become · To what, where: Québec, 1608, furs, symbol

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 (French, beaver fur, beaver), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1608	case
2	1608	1608	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 founded	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 French	det
4	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 founded	nsubj
5	founded	found	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Québec	Québec	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 founded	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 traded	cc
8	traded	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 founded	conj
9	furs	fur	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 traded	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 Nations	case
11	First	First	PROPN	_	12 Nations	amod
12	Nations	Nation	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 traded	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 canoe	case
14	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 traded	obl
15	across	across	ADP	_	17 distances	case
16	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 distances	amod
17	distances	distance	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 traded	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 founded	punct
19	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fur	compound
20	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 valuable	nsubj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 hats	case
22	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hats	amod
23	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fur	nmod
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 valuable	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 valuable	advmod
26	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 founded	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 became	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 beaver	det
29	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 became	nsubj
30	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 valuable	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 symbol	det
32	symbol	symbol	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 became	xcomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Canada	case
34	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 symbol	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 founded	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	found	past	the French	Québec	1608		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent québec=Patient
2	trade	past	the French not said here	furs		with First Nations; by canoe; across huge distances	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent fur=Theme with nation=Co-Agent
3	is	past	beaver fur for European hats			valuable property	tree rules
4	become	past	the beaver	a symbol of Canada			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:1.

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, 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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