Native peoples of North America, sentence 16
Near today's St Louis stood Cahokia, a city of perhaps 15,000 people about 900 years ago, with huge earth mounds.
Who acts: St Louis · What happens: stand · To what, where: Cahokia
This is a sentence of the lesson «Native peoples of North America» of the history 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 (St Louis), 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 | Near | near | ADV | _ | 5 Louis | advmod |
| 2 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Louis | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 today | case |
| 4 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Louis | compound |
| 5 | Louis | Louis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Cahokia | Cahokia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 city | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Cahokia | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 12 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 13 15,000 | advmod |
| 13 | 15,000 | 15000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 people | nummod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 city | nmod |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 900 | advmod |
| 16 | 900 | 900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 14 people | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mounds | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 mounds | case |
| 21 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mounds | amod |
| 22 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mounds | compound |
| 23 | mounds | mound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stood | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | today's St Louis | Cahokia | with huge earth mounds | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cahokia=Stimulus |
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:history:017-native-peoples-of-north-america.lesson:16.
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. 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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