Australia and New Zealand: a short story, sentence 11

For many years Aboriginal children were taken from their families; they are called the Stolen Generations, and in 2008 the Prime Minister formally apologised.

Who acts: Prime Minister · What happens: take, call, steal, apologise · To what, where: Aboriginal children, families, children, 2008 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Australia and New Zealand: 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 (Prime Minister), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 years	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 taken	obl
4	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 children	amod
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 taken	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taken	aux:pass
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 called	advcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 families	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 families	nmod:poss
10	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 taken	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 taken	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 called	nsubj:pass
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 called	aux:pass
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Generations	det
16	Stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 Generations	amod
17	Generations	generation	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 called	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 apologised	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 apologised	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 2008	case
21	2008	2008	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 apologised	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Minister	det
23	Prime	Prime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Minister	amod
24	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 apologised	nsubj
25	formally	formally	ADV	_	26 apologised	advmod
26	apologised	apologise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 called	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 taken	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive		Aboriginal children	children's families	year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from family=Initial_Location
2	call	present · passive		children = child				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	steal	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	apologise speech: apologize	past	the Prime Minister		2008		formally property	tree rules

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:040-australia-and-new-zealand-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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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