Canada: a short story, sentence 7

Beaver fur was in great demand for European hats, and traders and First Nations trappers travelled huge distances by canoe, so the beaver became a symbol of Canada.

Who acts: Beaver fur, traders, beaver · What happens: be, travel, become · To what, where: great demand, huge distances, symbol

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 (Beaver fur, traders, beaver), 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	Beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fur	compound
2	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 demand	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 demand	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 demand	case
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 demand	amod
6	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 travelled	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 hats	case
8	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hats	amod
9	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 demand	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 travelled	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 traders	cc
12	traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 travelled	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 trappers	cc
14	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 Nations	amod
15	Nations	Nation	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 trappers	compound
16	trappers	trapper	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 traders	conj
17	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 distances	amod
19	distances	distance	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 travelled	obj
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 canoe	case
21	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 travelled	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 became	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 became	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 beaver	det
25	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 became	nsubj
26	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 travelled	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 symbol	det
28	symbol	symbol	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 became	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Canada	case
30	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 symbol	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 demand	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	is	past	Beaver fur		great demand	for European hats	tree rules
2	travel	past	traders and Nations trappers	huge distances		by canoe	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory
3	become	past	the beaver	a symbol of Canada			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:7.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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