Accents and dialects around the world, sentence 12
Many of Australia's first settlers came from London and south-east England as well as Ireland; their mix of accents grew into the Australian accent over generations.
Who acts: Many, mix · What happens: come, grow · To what, where: London, Australian accent
This is a sentence of the lesson «Accents and dialects around the world» of the language 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 (Many, mix), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 came | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 settlers | case |
| 3 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 settlers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Australia | case |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 settlers | amod |
| 6 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Many | nmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 London | case |
| 9 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 England | cc |
| 11 | south | south | ADV | _ | 13 east | advmod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 south | punct |
| 13 | east | east | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 England | amod |
| 14 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 London | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 well | advmod |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 came | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 Ireland | case |
| 18 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 London | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 grew | punct |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mix | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mix | mix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grew | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 accents | case |
| 23 | accents | accent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 mix | nmod |
| 24 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 accent | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 accent | det |
| 27 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 accent | amod |
| 28 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grew | obl |
| 29 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 generations | case |
| 30 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 grew | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Many of Australia's first settlers | London and east England and Ireland | well property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from london=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | grow | past | England's mix of accents | the Australian accent | over generations | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over generation=Location |
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:language:019-accents-and-dialects-around-the-world.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 ×3, 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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