Native peoples of North America, sentence 18

Europeans brought diseases like smallpox that Native peoples had never met, and very many died, often before they ever saw a European, as the illness spread ahead from village to village.

Who acts: Europeans, Native peoples, many, People, illness · What happens: bring, not meet, die, see, spread · To what, where: diseases, European, village

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 (Europeans, Native peoples, many, People), 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	Europeans	European	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	diseases	disease	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brought	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 smallpox	case
5	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 diseases	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 met	obj
7	Native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 peoples	amod
8	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 met	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 met	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 met	advmod
11	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 diseases	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 died	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 died	cc
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 many	advmod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 died	nsubj
16	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brought	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
18	often	often	ADV	_	22 saw	advmod
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 saw	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 saw	advmod
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 died	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 European	det
24	European	European	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 saw	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 spread	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 spread	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 illness	det
28	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spread	nsubj
29	spread	spread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	conj
30	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	29 spread	advmod
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 village	case
32	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spread	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 village	case
34	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 village	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brought	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	Europeans	diseases			like smallpox	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent disease=Theme
2	not meet	past · perfect	Native peoples	diseases				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Co-Agent
3	die	past	many					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	see	past	People	a European		ever	often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer european=Stimulus
5	spread		the illness		village		ahead property	tree rules

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:18.

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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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