--- title: In 1788 eleven British ships, the First Fleet, brought convicts and… — Australia and New Zealand: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: In 1788 eleven British ships, the First Fleet, brought convicts and soldiers to Sydney Cove; many convicts had been sent for small crimes like stealing food, and many later became free farmers. Who acts: eleven British ships, small crimes, many. 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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 (eleven British ships, small crimes, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:040-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story.lesson:1 # text = In 1788 eleven British ships, the First Fleet, brought convicts and soldiers to Sydney Cove; many convicts had been sent for small crimes like stealing food, and many later became free farmers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 040-australia-and-new-zealand-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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1788 1788 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ _ 3 eleven eleven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 4 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 First first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 amod _ _ 9 Fleet fleet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 11 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 convicts convict NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Sydney Sydney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 Cove cove PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 convicts convict NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 crimes crime NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 like like ADP IN _ 28 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:case 28 stealing steal VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:nmod 29 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:amod 33 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 34 advmod _ _ 34 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 35 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 xcomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | past | eleven British ships | convicts and soldiers | Sydney | 1788 | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent convict=Theme to sydney=Destination | | 2 | **send** | past · perfect · passive | | many convicts | | | | for small crimes | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **steal** | gerund | small crimes *not said here* | food | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme | | 4 | **become** | past | many | free farmers | | | | late *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:history:040-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story.lesson:1`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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: [Canada: a short story, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/17/) - next →: [Australia and New Zealand: a short story, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/)