Australia and New Zealand: a short story, sentence 13

In 1840 Māori chiefs and the British signed the Treaty of Waitangi; the English and Māori versions said different things, which led to disputes and wars.

Who acts: Māori chiefs, English versions, different things · What happens: sign, say, lead · To what, where: Treaty, 1840, different things · 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 (Māori chiefs, English versions, different things), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1840	case
2	1840	1840	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 signed	obl
3	Māori	Māori	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chiefs	compound
4	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 signed	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 British	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 British	det
7	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chiefs	conj
8	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Treaty	det
10	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 signed	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Waitangi	case
12	Waitangi	Waitangi	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Treaty	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 versions	det
15	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 versions	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Māori	cc
17	Māori	Māori	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 English	conj
18	versions	version	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 things	amod
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 said	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 led	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 led	nsubj
24	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 things	acl:relcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 disputes	case
26	disputes	dispute	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 led	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wars	cc
28	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 disputes	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 signed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sign	past	Māori chiefs	the Treaty of Waitangi	1840		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent treaty=Theme in 1840=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	the English versions	different things			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
3	lead	past	different things			to disputes and wars	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to dispute=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:040-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story.lesson:13.

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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