--- title: In 1914 a world map looked like a few huge patches of colour: Europe… — How empires fell: the map of the 20th century · tree and pragmatics description: In 1914 a world map looked like a few huge patches of colour: European empires, with the USA and Japan, ruled most of the land and people on Earth, and the British Empire alone later covered about a quarter of the world's land. Who acts: world map, European empires, British Empire. 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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 (world map, European empires, British Empire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:037-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century.lesson:0 # text = In 1914 a world map looked like a few huge patches of colour: European empires, with the USA and Japan, ruled most of the land and people on Earth, and the British Empire alone later covered about a quarter of the world's land. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 037-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century.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 ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1914 1914 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 patches patch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 empires empire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 ruled rule VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 25 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 38 alone alone ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:advmod 39 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 40 advmod _ _ 40 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 41 about about ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:obl 44 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod:poss _ _ 47 's 's PART POS _ 46 case _ _ 48 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | a world map | | | | | like a few huge patches of colour and European empires; in 1914 | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in 1914=Theme | | 2 | **rule** | past | European empires *not said here* | most of the land and people on Earth | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme | | 3 | **cover** | past | the British Empire | a quarter of the world's land | | | | late *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent quarter=Destination | 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:037-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century.lesson:0`. **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 ×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. 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