Native peoples of North America, sentence 8
People first came to the Americas at least 15,000 years ago, probably from Asia across a land bridge or along the coast by boat during the Ice Age.
Who acts: People · What happens: come · To what, where: Asia
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 (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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Americas | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Americas | det |
| 6 | Americas | Americas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 least | case |
| 8 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 15,000 | nmod |
| 9 | 15,000 | 15000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Asia | punct |
| 13 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 15 Asia | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Asia | case |
| 15 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 16 | across | across | ADP | _ | 19 bridge | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bridge | det |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bridge | compound |
| 19 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 coast | cc |
| 21 | along | along | ADP | _ | 23 coast | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 coast | det |
| 23 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bridge | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 boat | case |
| 25 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 26 | during | during | ADP | _ | 29 Age | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Age | det |
| 28 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Age | compound |
| 29 | Age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | People | Asia | during the Ice Age | to the Americas; across a land bridge or the coast; by boat; ago, first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to americas=Initial_Location from asia=Destination |
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:8.
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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