Australia and New Zealand: a short story, sentence 5
Aboriginal Australians have lived in Australia for at least 50,000 years, with hundreds of languages, and their stories of the Dreaming explain the land, the animals and the law.
Who acts: Aboriginal Australians · What happens: live, explain · To what, where: Australia, land
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 (Aboriginal Australians), 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 | Aboriginal | aboriginal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Australians | amod |
| 2 | Australians | australian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | aux |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Australia | case |
| 6 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 years | case |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 least | case |
| 9 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 50,000 | nmod |
| 10 | 50,000 | 50000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hundreds | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 hundreds | case |
| 14 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 languages | case |
| 16 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hundreds | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stories | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stories | cc |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 stories | nmod:poss |
| 20 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Dreaming | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Dreaming | det |
| 23 | Dreaming | dreaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stories | nmod |
| 24 | explain | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 land | det |
| 26 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 explain | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 animals | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 animals | det |
| 29 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 land | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 law | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 law | det |
| 32 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 land | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · perfect | Aboriginal Australians | Australia | year | with hundreds of languages | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in australia=Location | ||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | present | Aboriginal Australians not said here | the land and the animals and the law | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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:5.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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