Australia and New Zealand: a short story, sentence 3
Across the sea the Māori had arrived in Aotearoa, New Zealand, from Polynesia about 700 years ago, and in 1840 their chiefs and the British signed the Treaty of Waitangi, whose English and Māori versions said different things.
Who acts: Māori, chiefs, English versions · What happens: arrive, sign, say · To what, where: sea, 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), 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 | Across | across | ADP | _ | 3 sea | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Māori | det |
| 5 | Māori | Māori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 arrived | aux |
| 7 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Aotearoa | case |
| 9 | Aotearoa | Aotearoa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Zealand | punct |
| 11 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Zealand | compound |
| 12 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Aotearoa | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Polynesia | punct |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Polynesia | case |
| 15 | Polynesia | Polynesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | obl |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 700 | advmod |
| 17 | 700 | 700 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 years | nummod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 arrived | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 signed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 signed | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 1840 | case |
| 23 | 1840 | 1840 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 signed | obl |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 chiefs | nmod:poss |
| 25 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 signed | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 British | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 British | det |
| 28 | British | British | PROPN | _ | 25 chiefs | conj |
| 29 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 arrived | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Treaty | det |
| 31 | Treaty | Treaty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 signed | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Waitangi | case |
| 33 | Waitangi | Waitangi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Treaty | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 English | punct |
| 35 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 39 versions | nmod:poss |
| 36 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 versions | amod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 Māori | cc |
| 38 | Māori | Māori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 English | conj |
| 39 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 said | nsubj |
| 40 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 Treaty | acl:relcl |
| 41 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 things | amod |
| 42 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 said | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past · perfect | the Māori | the sea | in Aotearoa and New Zealand; from Polynesia; ago property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme across sea=Initial_Location from polynesia=Destination | |||
| 2 | sign | past | Aotearoa's chiefs and the British | the Treaty of Waitangi | 1840 | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent treaty=Theme in 1840=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | English versions | different things | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
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:3.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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