--- title: British colonisation brought disease, violent frontier killings and… — The people who were already there: what colonisa… · tree and pragmatics description: British colonisation brought disease, violent frontier killings and the taking of land to Aboriginal peoples, and later many Aboriginal children were taken from their families; they are called the Stolen Generations. Who acts: British colonisation. 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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 colonisation), 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:14 # text = British colonisation brought disease, violent frontier killings and the taking of land to Aboriginal peoples, and later many Aboriginal children were taken from their families; they are called the Stolen Generations. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5 1 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 colonisation colonisation NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 violent violent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 frontier frontier NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 killings killing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 taking taking NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 Aboriginal aboriginal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 20 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 Aboriginal aboriginal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 Stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 amod _ _ 34 Generations generation PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 31 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | past | British colonisation | disease and violent frontier killings and the taking of land to Aboriginal peoples | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent disease=Theme | | 2 | **take** | past · passive | | many Aboriginal children | | children's families | | late *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from family=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **call** | present · passive | | children *= child* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **steal** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **take** | | | land | | | | to Aboriginal peoples | nom taking «act transitive»: of=patient to=obl | 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:14`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5. **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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