--- title: Europa Universalis 5 ends in 1836, when the empires are still growin… — How empires fell: the map of the 20th century · tree and pragmatics description: Europa Universalis 5 ends in 1836, when the empires are still growing, but its colonial map is already cracking: most of Spanish America and Brazil had become independent by then. Who acts: Europa Universalis, empires, colonial map, most. 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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 (Europa Universalis, empires, colonial map, most), 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:3 # text = Europa Universalis 5 ends in 1836, when the empires are still growing, but its colonial map is already cracking: most of Spanish America and Brazil had become independent by then. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Europa europa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Universalis Universalis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 1836 1836 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 empires empire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 still still ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 colonial colonial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 already already ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 cracking crack VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 23 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 Spanish Spanish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 31 independent independent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **end** | present | Europa Universalis | | | 1836 | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **grow** | present · progressive | the empires | | | | still | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **crack** | present · progressive | colony's colonial map | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **become** | past · perfect | most of Spanish America and Brazil | | | | | independent *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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:3`. **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): R7-rel-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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