Canada: a short story, sentence 11
Canada became independent step by step and peacefully, not through a revolution.
Who acts: Canada, step · What happens: become, step · To what, where: step
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, step), 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 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 step | xcomp |
| 4 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 became | obl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 step | case |
| 6 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 step | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 revolution | cc |
| 8 | peacefully | peacefully | ADV | _ | 13 revolution | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 revolution | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 revolution | advmod |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 revolution | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 revolution | det |
| 13 | revolution | revolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 step | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | 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 | become | past | Canada | step by step and a revolution | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | step | step and a revolution | nom step «act transitive»: by=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:039-canada-a-short-story.lesson:11.
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): no change. 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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