Canada: a short story, sentence 3

Canada became its own country step by step and peacefully, starting with Confederation in 1867, and a railway finished in 1885 tied it together from ocean to ocean.

Who acts: Canada, railway, step · What happens: become, start, finish, tie, step · To what, where: country step, 1867, railway, 1885, other

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, railway, 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	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 step	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 country	amod
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 step	compound
6	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 step	case
8	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 step	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 starting	cc
10	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	12 starting	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 starting	punct
12	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 became	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 Confederation	case
14	Confederation	confederation	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 starting	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 1867	case
16	1867	1867	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 starting	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tied	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tied	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 railway	det
20	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tied	nsubj
21	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 railway	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 1885	case
23	1885	1885	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 finished	obl
24	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tied	obj
26	together	together	ADV	_	24 tied	advmod
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 ocean	case
28	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tied	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 ocean	case
30	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tied	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 became	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	become	past	Canada	other's country step by step			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	start	gerund	Canada not said here		1867	with Confederation; peacefully property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with confederation=Subeventuality
3	finish	participle		a railway not said here	1885		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	tie	past	a railway	other		to ocean; to ocean; together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to ocean=Co-Patient
5	step		step	other			nom step «act transitive»: poss=patient 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:3.

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, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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