Native peoples of North America, sentence 2

There was no single Native American way of life, just as there is no single European one.

Who acts: single American way, single European one · What happens: be

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 (single American way, single European one), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 way	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
5	Native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 American	amod
6	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 life	case
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 way	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 is	punct
11	just	just	ADV	_	14 is	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 is	mark
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 is	expl
14	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 was	advcl
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 one	det
16	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 one	amod
17	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 one	amod
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 is	nsubj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no single American way of life			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	present	no single European one			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:history:017-native-peoples-of-north-america.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): 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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