The people who were already there: what colonisation did, sentence 11

In the 1830s the USA forced the Cherokee and other nations of the south-east off their lands to the west, and thousands died on the march known as the Trail of Tears.

Who acts: USA, thousands · What happens: force, die, know · To what, where: Cherokee, 1830s, march

This is a sentence of the lesson «The people who were already there: what colonisation did» 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 (USA, thousands), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 1830s	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 1830s	det
3	1830s	1830	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	6 forced	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 USA	det
5	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 forced	nsubj
6	forced	force	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Cherokee	det
8	Cherokee	Cherokee	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 forced	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 nations	cc
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nations	amod
11	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Cherokee	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 east	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 east	det
14	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 east	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 south	punct
16	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nations	nmod
17	off	off	ADP	_	19 lands	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 lands	nmod:poss
19	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forced	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 west	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 west	det
22	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lands	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 died	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 died	cc
25	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 died	nsubj
26	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 forced	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 march	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 march	det
29	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 died	obl
30	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 march	acl
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 Trail	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Trail	det
33	Trail	trail	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 known	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Tears	case
35	Tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 Trail	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 forced	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	force	past	the USA		the Cherokee and other nations of the south east	the 1830s	off nations's lands to the west	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cherokee=Recipient
2	die	past	thousands			the march		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	know	participle		the march not said here			as the Trail of Tears	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as trail=Attribute

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:036-the-people-who-were-already-there.lesson:11.

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 ×4, 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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