Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 12
From 1788 to 1868 Britain sent about 160,000 convicts on ships to Australia, a punishment called transportation, sometimes for quite small thefts.
Who acts: Britain, punishment · What happens: send, call · To what, where: 160,000 convicts, Australia, 1788, transportation · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» 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 (Britain, punishment), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 1788 | case |
| 2 | 1788 | 1788 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 sent | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 1868 | case |
| 4 | 1868 | 1868 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1788 | nmod |
| 5 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | nsubj |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 160,000 | advmod |
| 8 | 160,000 | 160,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 convicts | nummod |
| 9 | convicts | convict | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sent | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 ships | case |
| 11 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sent | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Australia | case |
| 13 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 punishment | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 punishment | det |
| 16 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Australia | appos |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 punishment | acl |
| 18 | transportation | transportation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thefts | punct |
| 20 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 thefts | advmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 thefts | case |
| 22 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 23 small | advmod |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 thefts | amod |
| 24 | thefts | theft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sent | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Britain | 160,000 convicts | Australia | 1788 to 1868 | on ships; for small thefts | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent convict=Theme from 1788=Initial_Location to australia=Destination | |
| 2 | call | participle | a punishment not said here | transportation | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.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): R5-strong ×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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