When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides, sentence 1

In Europa Universalis you colonise «empty» provinces with a few natives in them, and a handful of conquistadors can take an empire; real conquests needed local allies who hated their old rulers, and diseases that the newcomers did not even understand.

Who acts: you, handful, real conquests, local allies, newcomers · What happens: colonise, take, need, hate, not understand · To what, where: empty provinces, Europa, empire, local allies, old rulers, diseases

This is a sentence of the lesson «When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides» 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 (you, handful, real conquests, local allies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

neg

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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