Why some places grew rich, sentence 12
Singapore became independent in 1965 as a poor port; with trade, schools and clean government it became one of the richest places in the world, and South Korea, poorer than many countries in the 1950s, also grew rich.
Who acts: Singapore, trade, South Korea · What happens: become, grow · To what, where: 1965
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why some places grew rich» 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 (Singapore, trade, South Korea), 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 | Singapore | Singapore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | independent | independent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 became | xcomp |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1965 | case |
| 5 | 1965 | 1965 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 became | obl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 port | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 port | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 port | amod |
| 9 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 became | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 trade | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 trade | case |
| 12 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 became | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 schools | punct |
| 14 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 trade | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 government | cc |
| 16 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 government | amod |
| 17 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trade | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 became | nsubj |
| 19 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 became | parataxis |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 became | xcomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 places | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 places | det |
| 23 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 places | amod |
| 24 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 places | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 grew | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 grew | cc |
| 30 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Korea | compound |
| 31 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 grew | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 poorer | punct |
| 33 | poorer | poor | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 Korea | amod |
| 34 | than | than | ADP | _ | 36 countries | case |
| 35 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 countries | amod |
| 36 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 poorer | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 1950s | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 1950s | det |
| 39 | 1950s | 1950 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 36 countries | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 grew | punct |
| 41 | also | also | ADV | _ | 42 grew | advmod |
| 42 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 became | conj |
| 43 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 grew | xcomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Singapore | in 1965 result; as a poor port; independent property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1965=Result | ||||
| 2 | become | past | trade | with trade and schools and clean government | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | South Korea | rich property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:072-why-some-places-grew-rich.lesson:12.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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