Australia and New Zealand: a short story, sentence 7
In 1788 the First Fleet of eleven ships brought British convicts and soldiers to Sydney Cove to start a prison colony.
Who acts: First Fleet · What happens: bring, start · To what, where: British convicts, Sydney, 1788, prison colony
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 (First Fleet), 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 1788 | case |
| 2 | 1788 | 1788 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 brought | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fleet | det |
| 4 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 Fleet | amod |
| 5 | Fleet | fleet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ships | case |
| 7 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 ships | nummod |
| 8 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Fleet | nmod |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 convicts | amod |
| 11 | convicts | convict | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brought | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 soldiers | cc |
| 13 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 convicts | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Sydney | case |
| 15 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 16 | Cove | Cove | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sydney | flat |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 start | mark |
| 18 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 brought | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 colony | det |
| 20 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 colony | compound |
| 21 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 start | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | 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 | bring | past | the First Fleet of eleven ships | British convicts and soldiers | Sydney | 1788 | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent convict=Theme to sydney=Destination | ||
| 2 | start | to-infinitive | the First Fleet of eleven ships not said here | a prison colony | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Eventuality |
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: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 ×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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