The United States: a short story, sentence 5
In the 1600s and 1700s English settlers founded thirteen colonies on America's east coast, from Massachusetts to Georgia, on land where Native nations already lived.
Who acts: English settlers, Native nations · What happens: found, live · To what, where: 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 (English settlers, Native nations), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 1600s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 1600s | det |
| 3 | 1600s | 1600 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 8 founded | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 1700s | cc |
| 5 | 1700s | 1700 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 3 1600s | conj |
| 6 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 settlers | amod |
| 7 | settlers | settler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 founded | nsubj |
| 8 | founded | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | thirteen | thirteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 colonies | nummod |
| 10 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 founded | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 coast | case |
| 12 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 coast | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 America | case |
| 14 | east | east | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 coast | amod |
| 15 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 colonies | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Massachusetts | punct |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Massachusetts | case |
| 18 | Massachusetts | Massachusetts | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 colonies | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Georgia | case |
| 20 | Georgia | Georgia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Massachusetts | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 land | punct |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 land | case |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 founded | obl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 lived | advmod |
| 25 | Native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 nations | amod |
| 26 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 lived | nsubj |
| 27 | already | already | ADV | _ | 28 lived | advmod |
| 28 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 land | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past | English settlers | thirteen colonies and Massachusetts to Georgia | the 1600s and 1700s | on America's east coast; on land | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent colony=Theme on land=Source | ||
| 2 | live | past | Native nations | 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:038-the-united-states-a-short-story.lesson:5.
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. 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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