The United States: a short story, sentence 3

The young country spread west to the Pacific, taking land from Native nations, and welcomed millions of immigrants who sailed past the Statue of Liberty.

Who acts: young country, immigrants · What happens: spread, take, welcome, sail · To what, where: land, Native nations, millions, Statue

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 (young country, immigrants), 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	3 country	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 country	amod
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	nsubj
4	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	west	west	ADV	_	4 spread	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Pacific	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Pacific	det
8	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spread	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 taking	punct
10	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 spread	advcl
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taking	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 nations	case
13	Native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 nations	amod
14	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 taking	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 welcomed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 welcomed	cc
17	welcomed	welcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	conj
18	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 welcomed	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 immigrants	case
20	immigrants	immigrant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 millions	nmod
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 sailed	nsubj
22	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 immigrants	acl:relcl
23	past	past	ADP	_	25 Statue	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Statue	det
25	Statue	statue	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 sailed	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Liberty	case
27	Liberty	Liberty	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Statue	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spread	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread	past	the young country			to the Pacific; west property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	gerund	the young country not said here	land	Native nations		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent land=Theme from nation=Initial_Location
3	welcome	past	the young country not said here	millions of immigrants			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Theme
4	sail	past	immigrants		the Statue of Liberty		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past statue=Trajectory

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:3.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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