The United States, sentence 13

New York City is the largest city in the United States, with about 8.5 million people, and began as the Dutch town of New Amsterdam, taken by the English in 1664.

Who acts: New York City · What happens: be, begin, take · To what, where: largest city, United States, Dutch town, 1664

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 (New York City), 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	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 City	compound
2	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 City	compound
3	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 city	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 city	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
6	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 city	amod
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 States	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 States	det
10	United	United	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 States	amod
11	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 city	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 people	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	17 people	case
14	about	about	ADV	_	16 million	advmod
15	8.5	8.5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 million	compound
16	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 people	nummod
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 city	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 city	conj
21	as	as	ADP	_	24 town	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 town	det
23	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 town	amod
24	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 began	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 Amsterdam	case
26	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Amsterdam	compound
27	Amsterdam	Amsterdam	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 town	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 taken	punct
29	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 town	acl
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 English	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 English	det
32	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 taken	obl:agent
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 1664	case
34	1664	1664	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 taken	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 city	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	New York City	the largest city	the United States	with million people	tree rules
2	begin	past	New York City not said here			as the Dutch town of New Amsterdam	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	take	participle		the Dutch town of New Amsterdam not said here	1664		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in 1664=Location

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:13.

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.

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