--- title: From 1788 to 1868 Britain sent about 160,000 convicts on ships to Au… — Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the… · tree and pragmatics description: From 1788 to 1868 Britain sent about 160,000 convicts on ships to Australia, a punishment called transportation, sometimes for quite small thefts. Who acts: Britain, punishment. 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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 (Britain, punishment), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson:12 # text = From 1788 to 1868 Britain sent about 160,000 convicts on ships to Australia, a punishment called transportation, sometimes for quite small thefts. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.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 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1788 1788 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 1868 1868 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 5 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 160,000 160,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 convicts convict NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 17 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 transportation transportation NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 24 advmod _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 quite quite ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 thefts theft NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | Britain | 160,000 convicts | Australia | 1788 to 1868 | | on ships; for small thefts | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent convict=Theme from 1788=Initial\_Location to australia=Destination | | 2 | **call** | participle | a punishment *not said here* | transportation | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson:12`. **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. 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