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title: During the Great Famine of 1845 to 1852, when the potato crop failed… — Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: During the Great Famine of 1845 to 1852, when the potato crop failed but other food was still shipped out of Ireland, about a million people in Ireland died and over a million emigrated, and the island still has fewer people today than in 1841. Who acts: million people, million, island. A sentence o
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# Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world, sentence 14

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During the Great Famine of 1845 to 1852, when the potato crop failed but other food was still shipped out of Ireland, about a million people in Ireland died and over a million emigrated, and the island still has fewer people today than in 1841.

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**Who acts:** million people, million, island · **What happens:** fail, ship out, die, emigrate, have · **To what, where:** potato crop, other food, Ireland, fewer people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world» of the geography 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 (million people, million, island), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:010-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world.lesson:14
# text = During the Great Famine of 1845 to 1852, when the potato crop failed but other food was still shipped out of Ireland, about a million people in Ireland died and over a million emigrated, and the island still has fewer people today than in 1841.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 010-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×3, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1845	1845	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1852	1852	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	failed	fail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	shipped	ship	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=31:cc
33	over	over	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:obl
36	emigrated	emigrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
41	still	still	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj
43	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	44	amod	_	_
44	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
45	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl:unmarked	_	_
46	than	than	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	1841	1841	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	obl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | participle · passive |  | the potato crop |  |  | during the Great Famine of 1845 to 1852 |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ship out** | past · passive |  | other food |  | Ireland | still |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** | past | a million people in Ireland |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **emigrate** | past | a million |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | present | the island | fewer people |  |  | still; today | than 1841 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |

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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.

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**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 ×3, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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