--- title: From 1845 a potato disease destroyed Ireland's main food; about a mi… — Britain and Ireland: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: From 1845 a potato disease destroyed Ireland's main food; about a million people died in the Great Famine and over a million emigrated, many to America. Who acts: potato disease, million people, million. 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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 (potato disease, million people, million), 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:15 # text = From 1845 a potato disease destroyed Ireland's main food; about a million people died in the Great Famine and over a million emigrated, many to America. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1845 1845 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 potato potato NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 destroyed destroy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 7 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 Famine famine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 over over ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nsubj _ _ 25 emigrated emigrate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 appos _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **destroy** | past | a potato disease | Ireland's main food | | 1845 | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 2 | **die** | past | million people | | | | | in the Great Famine | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in famine=Attribute | | 3 | **emigrate** | past | a million | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:history:037-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story.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, R6-punct-agree ×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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