--- title: The British Empire spread the English language and British laws, but… — Britain and Ireland: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: The British Empire spread the English language and British laws, but it also took land and wealth and ruled people without their consent. Who acts: British Empire, it, people. 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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 Empire, it, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.lesson:13 # text = The British Empire spread the English language and British laws, but it also took land and wealth and ruled people without their consent. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 also also ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 wealth wealth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 ruled rule VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 without without ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 consent consent NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl 25 . . 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 | **spread** | past | the British Empire | the English language and British laws | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location language=Theme | | 2 | **take** | past | it | land and wealth | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | | 3 | **rule** | past | | people | | | | without people's consent | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent people=Result | | 4 | **consent** | | people | | | | | | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:history:037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.lesson:13`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Britain and Ireland: a short story, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/12/) - next →: [Britain and Ireland: a short story, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/)