From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries, sentence 5

There are about 195 countries today, and many African borders were drawn by Europeans on maps, with little thought for the peoples living there.

Who acts: 195 countries, Europeans, peoples · What happens: be about, draw, live · To what, where: many African 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 (195 countries, Europeans, peoples), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 195	advmod
4	195	195	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 countries	nummod
5	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
6	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 are	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drawn	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drawn	cc
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 borders	amod
10	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 borders	amod
11	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 drawn	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 drawn	aux:pass
13	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 are	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 Europeans	case
15	Europeans	European	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 drawn	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 maps	case
17	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 drawn	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 thought	case
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thought	amod
21	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drawn	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 peoples	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 peoples	det
24	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 thought	nmod
25	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 peoples	acl
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 living	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be about	present	195 countries		there	today		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	draw	past · passive	Europeans	many African borders	maps		with little thought for the peoples	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on map=Destination
3	live	gerund	the peoples not said here		there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: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): 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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