--- title: Imagine new neighbours moving into your street and announcing that y… — The people who were already there: what colonisa… · tree and pragmatics description: Imagine new neighbours moving into your street and announcing that your house is "unclaimed" because they had not seen it before: that is how colonisers often treated land that was already someone's home. Who acts: you, new neighbours, neighbours, that. 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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 (you, new neighbours, neighbours, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:036-the-people-who-were-already-there.lesson:1 # text = Imagine new neighbours moving into your street and announcing that your house is "unclaimed" because they had not seen it before: that is how colonisers often treated land that was already someone's home. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 036-the-people-who-were-already-there.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Imagine imagine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 announcing announce VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:aux:pass 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 unclaimed unclaim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 before before ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 1 ccomp _ _ 28 colonisers coloniser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 often often ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 treated treated VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 31 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 34 already already ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 35 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 acl:relcl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | new neighbours | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot neighbour=Theme | | 2 | **move** | gerund | new neighbours *not said here* | | | your street | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into street=Trajectory | | 3 | **announce** *speech: other* | gerund | new neighbours *not said here* | | | | | | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present · passive | | your house | | | | unclaim *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | neighbours *= neighbour* | house | | | | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 6 | **is** | present | that | | | | | how *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **treated** | past | colonisers | land | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **is a** | past | land | someone's home | | | | | 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](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:036-the-people-who-were-already-there.lesson:1`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The people who were already there: wha…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/36-the-people-who-were-already-there/0/) - next →: [The people who were already there: wha…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/36-the-people-who-were-already-there/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/36-the-people-who-were-already-there/)