The United States: a short story, sentence 0
Native nations had lived across North America for thousands of years when, in the 1600s and 1700s, English settlers founded thirteen colonies along the east coast, from Massachusetts to Georgia, on Native land.
Who acts: Native nations, English settlers · What happens: live, found · To what, where: North America, thirteen colonies, 1600s
This is a sentence of the lesson «The United States: a short story» 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 (Native nations, English 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 | Native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 nations | amod |
| 2 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | aux |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 America | case |
| 6 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 America | compound |
| 7 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 thousands | case |
| 9 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 years | case |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thousands | nmod |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 founded | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 1600s | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1600s | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 1600s | det |
| 16 | 1600s | 1600 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 22 founded | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 1700s | cc |
| 18 | 1700s | 1700 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 16 1600s | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 settlers | punct |
| 20 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 settlers | amod |
| 21 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 founded | nsubj |
| 22 | founded | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | advcl |
| 23 | thirteen | thirteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 colonies | nummod |
| 24 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 founded | obj |
| 25 | along | along | ADP | _ | 28 coast | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 coast | det |
| 27 | east | east | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 coast | amod |
| 28 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 colonies | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Massachusetts | punct |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Massachusetts | case |
| 31 | Massachusetts | Massachusetts | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 colonies | nmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Georgia | case |
| 33 | Georgia | Georgia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Massachusetts | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 land | punct |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 land | case |
| 36 | Native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 land | amod |
| 37 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | 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 | live | past · perfect | Native nations | North America | for thousands of years; on Native land | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location | |||
| 2 | found | past | English settlers | thirteen colonies | the 1600s and 1700s | along the east coast; from Massachusetts to Georgia | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=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:038-the-united-states-a-short-story.lesson:0.
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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