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description: English and later British rulers took land from Irish Catholics and gave it to Protestant settlers, especially in the 1600s, so that by the 1700s Catholics owned only a small share of the land. Who acts: English rulers, Catholics. A sentence of the lesson «Muscovy, England and France: how the big po
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# Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew, sentence 13

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English and later British rulers took land from Irish Catholics and gave it to Protestant settlers, especially in the 1600s, so that by the 1700s Catholics owned only a small share of the land.

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**Who acts:** English rulers, Catholics · **What happens:** take, give, own, share · **To what, where:** land, Irish Catholics, Protestant settlers, 1600s, small share

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» 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 (English rulers, Catholics), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:034-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew.lesson:13
# text = English and later British rulers took land from Irish Catholics and gave it to Protestant settlers, especially in the 1600s, so that by the 1700s Catholics owned only a small share of the land.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 034-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
5	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Catholics	Catholic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Protestant	protestant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	1600s	1600	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	fixed	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	1700s	1700	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	_
28	Catholics	Catholic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **take** | past | English rulers | land |  | Irish Catholics |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent land=Theme from catholic=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **give** | past | English rulers *not said here* | land | Protestant settlers | the 1600s |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to settler=Recipient |
| 3 | **own** | past | Catholics | a small share of the land |  |  |  | by the 1700s | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot share=Theme |
| 4 | **share** |  |  | the land |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: of=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): R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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