From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries, sentence 21

In 1884 and 1885 European powers met in Berlin to set rules for claiming Africa, and many borders were later drawn by Europeans on maps.

Who acts: European powers, Europeans · What happens: meet, set, claim, draw · To what, where: 1884, rules, Africa, many borders, maps

This is a sentence of the lesson «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» 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 (European powers, Europeans), 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 1884	case
2	1884	1884	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 met	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 1885	cc
4	1885	1885	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 1884	conj
5	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 powers	amod
6	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 met	nsubj
7	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Berlin	case
9	Berlin	Berlin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 met	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 set	mark
11	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 met	advcl
12	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 set	obj
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 claiming	mark
14	claiming	claim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 set	advcl
15	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 claiming	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 drawn	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drawn	cc
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 borders	amod
19	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 drawn	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 drawn	aux:pass
21	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 drawn	advmod
22	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 met	conj
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 Europeans	case
24	Europeans	European	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 drawn	obl:agent
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 maps	case
26	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 drawn	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 met	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	European powers		1884	in Berlin	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	set	to-infinitive	European powers not said here	rules			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient rule=Result
3	claim speech: other	gerund	European powers not said here	Africa			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent africa=Topic
4	draw	past · passive	Europeans	many borders	maps	late property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on map=Destination

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:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:21.

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): 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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