The United States: a short story, sentence 15

Millions of immigrants came to America from Europe, Asia and Latin America, many passing the Statue of Liberty, a giant statue holding up a torch, a gift from France, and Ellis Island in New York.

Who acts: Millions, many, giant statue · What happens: come, pass, hold up · To what, where: America, Europe, Statue, torch

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 (Millions, many, giant statue), 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	Millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 immigrants	case
3	immigrants	immigrant	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Millions	nmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 America	case
6	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Europe	case
8	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Asia	punct
10	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Europe	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Latin	cc
12	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Europe	conj
13	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Latin	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 passing	punct
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 passing	nsubj
16	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Statue	det
18	Statue	statue	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 passing	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Liberty	case
20	Liberty	Liberty	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Statue	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 statue	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 statue	det
23	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 statue	amod
24	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Liberty	appos
25	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 statue	acl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 holding	compound:prt
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 torch	det
28	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 holding	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gift	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 gift	det
31	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Liberty	appos
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 France	case
33	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 gift	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Island	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 Island	cc
36	Ellis	Ellis	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Island	compound
37	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Statue	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 York	case
39	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 York	amod
40	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Island	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	Millions of immigrants		America	Europe and Asia and Latin	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to america=Initial_Location from europe=Destination
2	pass	gerund	many	the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island in New York			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme statue=Trajectory
3	hold up	gerund	a giant statue not said here	a torch			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot torch=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:038-the-united-states-a-short-story.lesson:15.

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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