When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides, sentence 2

Empires look different from each side: one grandad remembers railways, another remembers famines, and historians still argue how to weigh the good and the harm; both stories can be partly true at once.

Who acts: Empires, one grandad, another, historians, stories · What happens: look, remember, argue, weigh, be · To what, where: railways, famines, good

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 (Empires, one grandad, another, historians), 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	Empires	empire	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	xcomp
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 side	det
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 remembers	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 grandad	nummod
9	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remembers	nsubj
10	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 look	parataxis
11	railways	railway	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 remembers	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 remembers	punct
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 remembers	nsubj
14	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 remembers	conj
15	famines	famine	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 remembers	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 argue	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 argue	cc
18	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 argue	nsubj
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 argue	advmod
20	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 look	parataxis
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 weigh	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 weigh	mark
23	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 argue	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 good	det
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 weigh	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 harm	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 harm	det
28	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 good	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 true	punct
30	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	31 stories	det
31	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 true	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 true	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 true	cop
34	partly	partly	ADV	_	35 true	advmod
35	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	conj
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 once	case
37	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	35 true	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	Empires			from each side; different property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from side=Theme
2	remember	present	one grandad	railways			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent railway=Theme
3	remember	present	another	famines			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent famine=Theme
4	argue speech: disagree	present	historians		still		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	weigh	to-infinitive	historians not said here	the good and the harm			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme good=Value
6	is	can	both stories			partly, true property	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:076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.lesson:2.

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): R5-strong ×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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