From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries, sentence 23
In a federation, states or regions run some things and the national government runs others; the US, Switzerland, Germany, India and Australia are federations.
Who acts: states, national government, US · What happens: run, be · To what, where: things, federation, others, federations
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 (states, national government, US), 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 | _ | 3 federation | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 federation | det |
| 3 | federation | federation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 run | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 federation | punct |
| 5 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 run | nsubj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 regions | cc |
| 7 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 states | conj |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 things | det |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 run | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 runs | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 government | det |
| 13 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 government | amod |
| 14 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 runs | nsubj |
| 15 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 run | conj |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 runs | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 US | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 US | det |
| 19 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 federations | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Switzerland | punct |
| 21 | Switzerland | Switzerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 US | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Germany | punct |
| 23 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 US | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 India | punct |
| 25 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 US | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Australia | cc |
| 27 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 US | conj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 federations | cop |
| 29 | federations | federation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 run | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 run | 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 | run | present | states or regions | some things | a federation | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in federation=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | run | present | the national government | others | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme other=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the US and Switzerland and Germany and India and Australia | federations | tree rules |
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:23.
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. 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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