Canada: a short story, sentence 10
In 1867 several colonies joined to form the Dominion of Canada, which is celebrated every year on Canada Day, 1 July.
Who acts: several colonies · What happens: join, form, celebrate · To what, where: 1, Dominion
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 (several colonies), 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 1867 | case |
| 2 | 1867 | 1867 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 joined | obl |
| 3 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 colonies | amod |
| 4 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 joined | nsubj |
| 5 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 form | mark |
| 7 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 joined | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Dominion | det |
| 9 | Dominion | Dominion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 form | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Canada | case |
| 11 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Dominion | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 celebrated | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 15 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Dominion | acl:relcl |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 celebrated | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 Day | case |
| 19 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Day | compound |
| 20 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 celebrated | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 1 | punct |
| 22 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 joined | obl |
| 23 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 1 | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 joined | 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 | join | past | several colonies | 1 July | in 1867 | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in 1867=Theme | |||
| 2 | form | to-infinitive | several colonies not said here | the Dominion of Canada | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dominion=Theme | ||||
| 3 | celebrate | present · passive | the Dominion of Canada | on Canada Day; year | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:039-canada-a-short-story.lesson:10.
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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