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title: After the First World War four old empires fell apart; after the Sec… — How empires fell: the map of the 20th century · tree and pragmatics
description: After the First World War four old empires fell apart; after the Second, colony after colony in Asia and Africa became free, some by long campaigns like Gandhi's in India, some only after cruel wars like Algeria's. Who acts: four old empires, colony. A sentence of the lesson «How empires fell: the m
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# How empires fell: the map of the 20th century, sentence 2

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After the First World War four old empires fell apart; after the Second, colony after colony in Asia and Africa became free, some by long campaigns like Gandhi's in India, some only after cruel wars like Algeria's.

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**Who acts:** four old empires, colony · **What happens:** fell apart, become

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four old empires, colony), 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:2
# text = After the First World War four old empires fell apart; after the Second, colony after colony in Asia and Africa became free, some by long campaigns like Gandhi's in India, some only after cruel wars like Algeria's.
# 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): no change
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	First	First	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
4	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	empires	empire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fell	fell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Second	Second	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
24	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	campaigns	campaign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Gandhi	Gandhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	det	_	_
37	only	only	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
38	after	after	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
41	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Algeria	Algeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	's	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fell apart** | present | four old empires |  |  |  | after the First World War | apart *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | colony after colony in Asia and Africa |  |  |  | after the Second | free *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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/).

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