--- title: When British India became independent in 1947, it was split into Ind… — Borders: why they are where they are · tree and pragmatics description: When British India became independent in 1947, it was split into India and Pakistan, with a border drawn in a few weeks. Who acts: British India. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (British India), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:031-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are.lesson:12 # text = When British India became independent in 1947, it was split into India and Pakistan, with a border drawn in a few weeks. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 031-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are.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): no change 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 5 independent independent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 1947 1947 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 split split VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 Pakistan Pakistan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 border border NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 20 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | British India | | | | | independent *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **split** | past · passive | | border | | | | into India and Pakistan *result*; with a border | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: subject=Patient into india=Result with border=Instrument | | 3 | **draw** | participle | | a border *not said here* | | | week | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:geography:031-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are.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): no change. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Borders: why they are where they are, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/11/) - next →: [Borders: why they are where they are, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/)