Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and of today, sentence 14

Some capitals were planned from scratch to be fair between regions: Washington DC in the 1790s, Canberra chosen in 1908 and founded in 1913, and Brasília in 1960.

Who acts: Canberra · What happens: plan, be, choose, found · To what, where: capitals, scratch, regions, 1790s, 1913

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and of today» 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 (Canberra), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 capitals	det
2	capitals	capital	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 planned	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 planned	aux:pass
4	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 scratch	case
6	scratch	scratch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 planned	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	9 fair	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 fair	cop
9	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 planned	advcl
10	between	between	ADP	_	11 regions	case
11	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fair	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Washington	punct
13	Washington	Washington	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 regions	appos
14	DC	DC	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Washington	flat
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 1790s	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 1790s	det
17	1790s	1790	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	20 chosen	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 1790s	punct
19	Canberra	Canberra	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 chosen	nsubj
20	chosen	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 regions	acl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 1908	case
22	1908	1908	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 chosen	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 founded	cc
24	founded	found	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 chosen	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 1913	case
26	1913	1913	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 founded	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Brasília	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Brasília	cc
29	Brasília	Brasília	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 planned	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 1960	case
31	1960	1960	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 planned	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 planned	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plan	past · passive		some capitals	scratch	in 1960; Brasília obl	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	is	to-infinitive				between regions; fair property	tree rules
3	choose	past	Canberra	regions not said here	the 1790s	in 1908	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Theme
4	found	participle	Canberra not said here		1913		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:074-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today.lesson:14.

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.

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