Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, sentence 15

New Zealand's Māori electorates, set up in 1867, are seats for voters on the Māori roll; the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840 is a founding agreement between Māori chiefs and the British Crown.

Who acts: Māori electorates, Treaty · What happens: set up, be · To what, where: Māori electorates, 1867, seats, founding agreement

This is a sentence of the lesson «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» of the politics 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 (Māori electorates, Treaty), 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	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Zealand	flat
2	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 electorates	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Zealand	case
4	Māori	Māori	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 electorates	compound
5	electorates	electorate	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seats	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 electorates	punct
7	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 electorates	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 set	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1867	case
10	1867	1867	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 set	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 1867	punct
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 seats	cop
13	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 voters	case
15	voters	voter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seats	nmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 roll	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 roll	det
18	Māori	Māori	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 roll	amod
19	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 voters	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 agreement	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Treaty	det
22	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 agreement	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Waitangi	case
24	Waitangi	Waitangi	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Treaty	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 1840	case
26	1840	1840	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 Treaty	nmod
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 agreement	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 agreement	det
29	founding	founding	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 agreement	compound
30	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seats	parataxis
31	between	between	ADP	_	33 chiefs	case
32	Māori	Māori	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 chiefs	compound
33	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 agreement	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 Crown	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Crown	det
36	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Crown	amod
37	Crown	Crown	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 chiefs	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 seats	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set up	participle		New Zealand's Māori electorates not said here	1867		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 1867=Destination
2	is a	present	New Zealand's Māori electorates	seats		for voters on the Māori roll	tree rules
3	is a	present	the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840	a founding agreement		between Māori chiefs and the British Crown	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:politics:009-around-the-english-speaking-world-canada-australia-ireland-new-zealand.lesson:15.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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