The United States: a short story, sentence 6
The first lasting English colony was Jamestown in 1607, the Pilgrims came on the Mayflower in 1620, and the Spanish town of St.
Who acts: first lasting English colony, Pilgrims · What happens: be, come · To what, where: Jamestown, Mayflower
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 (first lasting English colony, Pilgrims), 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 | 5 colony | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 colony | amod |
| 3 | lasting | lasting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 colony | amod |
| 4 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 colony | amod |
| 5 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Jamestown | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Jamestown | cop |
| 7 | Jamestown | Jamestown | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1607 | case |
| 9 | 1607 | 1607 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 colony | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Pilgrims | det |
| 12 | Pilgrims | pilgrim | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Jamestown | parataxis |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 Mayflower | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Mayflower | det |
| 16 | Mayflower | Mayflower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 1620 | case |
| 18 | 1620 | 1620 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 came | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 town | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 town | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 town | det |
| 22 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 town | amod |
| 23 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 St. | case |
| 25 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 town | nmod |
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 | is a | past | the first lasting English colony | Jamestown | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the Pilgrims | the Mayflower | in 1620 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mayflower=Location |
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:6.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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