The United States: a short story, sentence 8

In 1621 the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people shared a harvest feast; the Wampanoag had helped the settlers survive by teaching them to grow corn.

Who acts: Pilgrims, Wampanoag, settlers · What happens: share, help, survive, teach, grow · To what, where: 1621, Pilgrims, corn

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 (Pilgrims, Wampanoag, 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 Pilgrims	case
2	1621	1621	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 shared	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pilgrims	det
4	Pilgrims	pilgrim	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 shared	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shared	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
7	Wampanoag	wampanoag	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 people	compound
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Pilgrims	conj
9	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 helped	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 feast	det
11	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feast	compound
12	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shared	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 helped	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Wampanoag	det
15	Wampanoag	wampanoag	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 helped	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 helped	aux
17	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 settlers	det
19	settlers	settler	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 survive	nsubj
20	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 helped	xcomp
21	by	by	SCONJ	_	22 teaching	mark
22	teaching	teach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 survive	advcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 teaching	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 grow	mark
25	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 teaching	xcomp
26	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grow	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 shared	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	share	past	the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people	1621		tree rules
2	help	past · perfect	the Wampanoag			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	survive	infinitive	the settlers			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	teach speech: other	gerund	the settlers not said here		Pilgrims = pilgrim	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	grow	to-infinitive	the settlers not said here	corn		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location corn=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:8.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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