The United States, sentence 1

But the game's "empty" colonial land was never empty: millions of Native Americans lived there, and disease, wars and forced removals took their lands and many lives.

Who acts: empty colonial land, millions, disease · What happens: not be, live, force, take · To what, where: lands

This is a sentence of the lesson «The United States» 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 (empty colonial land, millions, disease), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 empty	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 land	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 game	case
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 empty	punct
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 land	amod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 empty	punct
8	colonial	colonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 land	amod
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 empty	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 empty	cop
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 empty	advmod
12	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 lived	punct
14	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lived	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Americans	case
16	Native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Americans	amod
17	Americans	American	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 millions	nmod
18	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 empty	parataxis
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 lived	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 disease	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 disease	cc
22	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wars	punct
24	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 disease	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 took	cc
26	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 removals	amod
27	removals	removal	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 took	nsubj
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 empty	conj
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 lands	nmod:poss
30	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 took	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lives	cc
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lives	amod
33	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 lands	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 empty	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the game's empty colonial land			empty property	tree rules
2	live	past	millions of Native Americans		there		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	force	participle					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	take	past	disease and wars	removals's lands and many lives			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme

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:009-the-united-states.lesson:1.

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 ×3. 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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