Native peoples of North America, sentence 6

Europeans brought diseases like smallpox that killed very many people, and later settlers pushed Native nations off their lands with wars and broken treaties.

Who acts: Europeans, smallpox, settlers · What happens: bring, kill, push, break · To what, where: diseases, many people, Native nations, lands

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, smallpox, settlers), 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	7 killed	nsubj
7	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smallpox	acl:relcl
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 many	advmod
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 killed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pushed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pushed	cc
13	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 pushed	advmod
14	settlers	settler	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pushed	nsubj
15	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brought	conj
16	Native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 nations	amod
17	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pushed	obj
18	off	off	ADP	_	20 lands	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lands	nmod:poss
20	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pushed	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 wars	case
22	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pushed	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 treaties	cc
24	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 treaties	amod
25	treaties	treaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wars	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brought	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	Europeans	diseases		like smallpox	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent disease=Theme
2	kill	past	smallpox	many people			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
3	push	past	settlers	Native nations	nations's lands	with wars and broken treaties; late property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nation=Theme off land=Trajectory
4	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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:6.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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