Accents and dialects around the world, sentence 3
Accents grow from the people who settle a place: many of Australia's first settlers in the late 1700s and 1800s came from London, south-east England and Ireland, and their mix became the Australian accent.
Who acts: Accents, people, many, mix · What happens: grow, settle, come, become · To what, where: place, 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 (Accents, people, 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 | Accents | accent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | obl |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 settle | nsubj |
| 7 | settle | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 people | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 settle | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 grow | punct |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 came | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 settlers | case |
| 13 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 settlers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Australia | case |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 settlers | amod |
| 16 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 many | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 1700s | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 1700s | det |
| 19 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 1700s | amod |
| 20 | 1700s | 1700 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 16 settlers | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 1800s | cc |
| 22 | 1800s | 1800 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 20 1700s | conj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grow | parataxis |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 London | case |
| 25 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 England | punct |
| 27 | south | south | ADV | _ | 29 east | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 south | punct |
| 29 | east | east | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 England | amod |
| 30 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 London | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Ireland | cc |
| 32 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 England | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 became | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 became | cc |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 mix | nmod:poss |
| 36 | mix | mix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 became | nsubj |
| 37 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 came | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 accent | det |
| 39 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 accent | amod |
| 40 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 became | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Accents | from the people | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from people=Patient | ||||
| 2 | settle | present | the people | a place | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme place=Location | ||||
| 3 | come | past | many of Australia's first settlers in the late 1700s and 1800s | London and east England and Ireland | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from london=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | become | past | accent's mix | the Australian accent | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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:3.
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 ×2. 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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