Native peoples of North America, sentence 9
The Americas were not empty when Europeans arrived; tens of millions of people lived there.
Who acts: Americas, Europeans · What happens: not be, arrive, live · To what, where: people
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 (Americas, Europeans), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Americas | det |
| 2 | Americas | Americas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 empty | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 empty | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 empty | advmod |
| 5 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 arrived | mark |
| 7 | Europeans | European | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 arrived | nsubj |
| 8 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 empty | advcl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 empty | punct |
| 10 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 empty | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 millions | case |
| 12 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tens | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 millions | nmod |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 people | acl |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 lived | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 empty | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the Americas | empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | Europeans | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live | participle | people not said here | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «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:9.
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): 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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