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title: The story also has peoples who fought back and won, like Ethiopia at… — When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and… · tree and pragmatics
description: The story also has peoples who fought back and won, like Ethiopia at Adwa and the Haitians who freed themselves, countries that kept free by clever deals, like Siam, and non-European empires too, like Japan in Korea. Who acts: story, peoples, Haitians, countries. A sentence of the lesson «When civil
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# When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides, sentence 3

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The story also has peoples who fought back and won, like Ethiopia at Adwa and the Haitians who freed themselves, countries that kept free by clever deals, like Siam, and non-European empires too, like Japan in Korea.

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**Who acts:** story, peoples, Haitians, countries · **What happens:** have, fight back, win, free, keep · **To what, where:** peoples, stories

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides» 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 (story, peoples, Haitians, countries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.lesson:3
# text = The story also has peoples who fought back and won, like Ethiopia at Adwa and the Haitians who freed themselves, countries that kept free by clever deals, like Siam, and non-European empires too, like Japan in Korea.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Adwa	Adwa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Haitians	haitian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	freed	free	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	deals	deal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Siam	Siam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	non-European	non-European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
36	empires	empire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	parataxis	_	_
37	too	too	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	like	like	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the story | peoples and countries |  |  |  | like Ethiopia at Adwa and the Haitians | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 2 | **fight back** | past | peoples and countries |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **win** | past | peoples and countries *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **free** | past | the Haitians | stories *= story* |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer themselves=Source |
| 5 | **keep** | past | countries |  |  |  |  | by clever deals; like Siam; like Japan in Korea; free *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by deal=Location |

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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.

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**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 ×2, R7-rel-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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