--- title: The United Kingdom grew from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, a… — Britain and Ireland: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: The United Kingdom grew from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and by 1900 Britain ruled a huge empire, which spread English but also ruled many people without their consent. Who acts: United Kingdom, Britain, huge empire, 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 (United Kingdom, Britain, huge empire, 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:3 # text = The United Kingdom grew from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and by 1900 Britain ruled a huge empire, which spread English but also ruled many 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 United United PROPN NNP _ 3 flat _ _ 3 Kingdom Kingdom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 1900 1900 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 obl _ _ 17 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 ruled rule VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 empire empire NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 also also ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 ruled rule VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 29 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 without without ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 consent consent NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **grow** | past | the United Kingdom | | | | | from England and Wales and Scotland and Ireland | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from england=Patient | | 2 | **rule** | past | Britain | a huge empire | | | | by 1900 | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Theme | | 3 | **spread** | past | a huge empire | English | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location english=Theme | | 4 | **rule** | past | a huge empire *not said here* | many people | | | | without people's consent | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent people=Result | | 5 | **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: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): R5-strong ×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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/2/) - next →: [Britain and Ireland: a short story, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/)