When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides, sentence 4

A fair historian listens for both sides, uses words carefully, and remembers that the people on the map were people, not numbers.

Who acts: fair historian, people · What happens: listen, use, remember, be · To what, where: words, people · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fair historian, people), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 historian	det
2	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 historian	amod
3	historian	historian	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listens	nsubj
4	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 sides	case
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 sides	det
7	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 listens	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 uses	punct
9	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 listens	conj
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 uses	obj
11	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	9 uses	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 remembers	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 remembers	cc
14	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 listens	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 people	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 people	det
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 people	nsubj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 map	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 map	det
20	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 people	nmod
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 people	cop
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 remembers	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 numbers	punct
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 numbers	advmod
25	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 people	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 listens	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen	present	a fair historian		for both sides	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for side=Theme
2	use	present	a fair historian not said here	words	carefully property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
3	remember	present	a fair historian not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	the people on the map	people and numbers		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:4.

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): 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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