--- title: When Britain began a colony in Australia in 1788 it treated the land… — The people who were already there: what colonisa… · tree and pragmatics description: When Britain began a colony in Australia in 1788 it treated the land as belonging to no one, an idea Australia's High Court rejected in the Mabo decision of 1992. Who acts: Britain, colony, High Court. 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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 (Britain, colony, High Court), 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:13 # text = When Britain began a colony in Australia in 1788 it treated the land as belonging to no one, an idea Australia's High Court rejected in the Mabo decision of 1992. # 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): no change 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 colony colony NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 1788 1788 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 treated treat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 belonging belong VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 22 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 High High PROPN NNP _ 25 compound _ _ 25 Court Court PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 rejected reject VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 Mabo Mabo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 decision decision NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 1992 1992 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | Britain | a colony | | Australia | | in 1788 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Eventuality | | 2 | **treat** | past | colony | the land | | | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent land=Recipient | | 3 | **belong** | gerund | colony *not said here* | | no one | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **reject** | past | Australia's High Court | a idea *not said here* | | the Mabo decision of 1992 | | | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme | 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:13`. **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: [The people who were already there: wha…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/36-the-people-who-were-already-there/12/) - next →: [The people who were already there: wha…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/36-the-people-who-were-already-there/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/36-the-people-who-were-already-there/)