Canada: a short story, sentence 5
Canada has been home for thousands of years to First Nations and Inuit peoples, with many languages and ways of life, and the Métis people, of mixed First Nations and European roots, grew up later during the fur trade.
Who acts: Canada, Métis people · What happens: be, mix, grow up · To what, where: home
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 people), 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 | 4 home | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 home | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 home | cop |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 thousands | case |
| 6 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 home | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thousands | nmod |
| 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 years | nmod |
| 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 | _ | 37 grew | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 people | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 people | det |
| 26 | Métis | Métis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 people | compound |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 grew | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Nations | punct |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Nations | case |
| 30 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 Nations | amod |
| 31 | First | First | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 32 Nations | amod |
| 32 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 people | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 roots | cc |
| 34 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 roots | amod |
| 35 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Nations | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Nations | punct |
| 37 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 home | conj |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 grew | compound:prt |
| 39 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 grew | advmod |
| 40 | during | during | ADP | _ | 43 trade | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 trade | det |
| 42 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 trade | compound |
| 43 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 grew | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 home | 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 a | present · perfect | Canada | home | for thousands of years to First Nations and Inuit peoples and many languages and ways of life | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mix | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | grow up | past | the Métis people of mixed First Nations and European roots | during the fur trade | late property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:5.
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, 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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