Canada: a short story, sentence 6
French explorers and settlers founded Québec in 1608 and traded furs with First Nations across the country.
Who acts: French explorers · What happens: found, trade · To what, where: Québec, 1608, furs, country
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 explorers), 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 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 explorers | amod |
| 2 | explorers | explorer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 founded | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 settlers | cc |
| 4 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 explorers | conj |
| 5 | founded | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Québec | Québec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 founded | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 1608 | case |
| 8 | 1608 | 1608 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 founded | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 traded | cc |
| 10 | traded | trade | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 founded | conj |
| 11 | furs | fur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 traded | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Nations | case |
| 13 | First | First | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 Nations | amod |
| 14 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 traded | obl |
| 15 | across | across | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 traded | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past | French explorers and settlers | Québec | 1608 | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent québec=Patient | |||
| 2 | trade | past | French explorers and settlers not said here | furs | the country | with First Nations | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent fur=Theme with nation=Co-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:6.
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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