--- title: In 1840 many Māori chiefs and the British Crown signed the Treaty of… — The people who were already there: what colonisa… · tree and pragmatics description: In 1840 many Māori chiefs and the British Crown signed the Treaty of Waitangi, but the English and Māori texts said different things about who held power. Who acts: many Māori chiefs, English texts, different things. 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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 (many Māori chiefs, English texts, different things), 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:15 # text = In 1840 many Māori chiefs and the British Crown signed the Treaty of Waitangi, but the English and Māori texts said different things about who held power. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 1840 1840 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nummod 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 Māori Māori PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 chiefs chief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Crown Crown PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 signed sign VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Treaty Treaty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Waitangi Waitangi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 Māori Māori ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 21 texts text NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis 23 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 about about SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl _ _ 28 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sign** | past | many Māori chiefs and the British Crown | 1840 | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent treaty=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the English texts | different things | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 3 | **hold** | past | different things | power | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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:15`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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