Latin America and the Caribbean, sentence 4

Really the land was home to millions of people: after 1492 the Indigenous population collapsed, in many regions by perhaps nine out of ten within a century, mostly from new diseases such as smallpox, along with war and forced labour.

Who acts: Indigenous population · What happens: be, collapse, force · To what, where: many regions

This is a sentence of the lesson «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography 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 (Indigenous population), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Really	really	ADV	_	3 land	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 land	det
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 millions	cop
5	home	home	ADV	_	7 millions	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 millions	case
7	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 land	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 millions	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 1492	punct
11	after	after	ADP	_	12 1492	case
12	1492	1492	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 collapsed	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 population	det
14	Indigenous	Indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 population	amod
15	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 collapsed	nsubj
16	collapsed	collapse	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 land	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 regions	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 regions	case
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 regions	amod
20	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 collapsed	obl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 nine	case
22	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	23 nine	advmod
23	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 collapsed	obl
24	out	out	ADP	_	26 ten	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 ten	case
26	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 nine	nmod
27	within	within	ADP	_	29 century	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 century	det
29	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 nine	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 diseases	punct
31	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	34 diseases	advmod
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 diseases	case
33	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 diseases	amod
34	diseases	disease	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 nine	conj
35	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	37 smallpox	case
36	as	as	ADP	_	35 such	fixed
37	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 diseases	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 war	punct
39	along	along	ADP	_	41 war	case
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 war	case
41	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 diseases	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 labour	cc
43	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 labour	amod
44	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 war	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 land	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				to millions; of people; home property	tree rules
2	collapse	past	the Indigenous population	many regions	after 1492	by nine out ten within a century and new diseases such smallpox along war and forced labour	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	force	participle					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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, 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:geography:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson:4.

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 ×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.

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