--- title: In 1884 and 1885 European powers met in Berlin to set rules for clai… — From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms,… · tree and pragmatics description: In 1884 and 1885 European powers met in Berlin to set rules for claiming Africa, and many borders were later drawn by Europeans on maps. Who acts: European powers, Europeans. A sentence of the lesson «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» of the history course of Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/66-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries/21/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [From band to nation: families, tribes,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/66-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries/) / 21 # From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries, sentence 21 In 1884 and 1885 European powers met in Berlin to set rules for claiming Africa, and many borders were later drawn by Europeans on maps. **Who acts:** European powers, Europeans · **What happens:** meet, set, claim, draw · **To what, where:** 1884, rules, Africa, many borders, maps This is a sentence of the lesson «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (European powers, Europeans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:21 # text = In 1884 and 1885 European powers met in Berlin to set rules for claiming Africa, and many borders were later drawn by Europeans on maps. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1884 1884 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 1885 1885 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ 5 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 powers power NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Berlin Berlin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:xcomp 12 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 for for SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 claiming claim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 15 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 borders border NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 21 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 22 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Europeans European PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 22 obl:agent _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:obl:agent|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 maps map NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | past | European powers | | | 1884 | | in Berlin | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **set** | to-infinitive | European powers *not said here* | rules | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient rule=Result | | 3 | **claim** *speech: other* | gerund | European powers *not said here* | Africa | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent africa=Topic | | 4 | **draw** | past · passive | Europeans | many borders | | maps | | late *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on map=Destination | 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:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:21`. **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, 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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