The United States, sentence 2

The young country grew by buying land, like the Louisiana Purchase from France and Alaska from Russia, by wars and by settlers pushing west, until it stretched from ocean to ocean.

Who acts: young country, wars, land · What happens: grow, buy, push, stretch · To what, where: land, ocean

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 (young country, wars, land), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 country	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 country	amod
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 buying	mark
6	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 grew	advcl
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buying	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Purchase	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 Purchase	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Purchase	det
11	Louisiana	Louisiana	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Purchase	compound
12	Purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 France	case
14	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Purchase	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Alaska	cc
16	Alaska	Alaska	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 France	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 Russia	case
18	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Purchase	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wars	punct
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 wars	case
21	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grew	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 settlers	cc
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 settlers	case
24	settlers	settler	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 wars	conj
25	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 wars	acl
26	west	west	ADV	_	25 pushing	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stretched	punct
28	until	until	SCONJ	_	30 stretched	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stretched	nsubj
30	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 pushing	advcl
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 ocean	case
32	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stretched	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 ocean	case
34	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stretched	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	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	grow	past	the young country			like the Louisiana Purchase from France and Alaska from Russia	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	buy	gerund	the young country not said here	land			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme
3	push	gerund	wars and settlers not said here			west property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	stretch	past	land		ocean	to ocean	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ocean=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:2.

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): no change. 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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