Explorers, scientists and inventors, sentence 13
Indigenous peoples (the first peoples of a land), millions of them, had lived in the Americas for many thousands of years before Columbus, and Norse sailors led by Leif Erikson reached North America around the year 1000.
Who acts: Indigenous peoples, Norse sailors · What happens: live, lead, reach · To what, where: Americas, Norse sailors, North America
This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers, scientists and inventors» of the myths 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 (Indigenous peoples, Norse sailors), 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 | Indigenous | indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 peoples | amod |
| 2 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 peoples | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 peoples | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 peoples | amod |
| 6 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 peoples | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 peoples | nmod |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 peoples | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 millions | punct |
| 12 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 peoples | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 millions | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 peoples | punct |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lived | aux |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Americas | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Americas | det |
| 20 | Americas | Americas | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 lived | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 thousands | case |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 thousands | amod |
| 23 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lived | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 years | case |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 thousands | nmod |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 Columbus | case |
| 27 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 thousands | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 reached | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 reached | cc |
| 30 | Norse | norse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 sailors | amod |
| 31 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 reached | nsubj |
| 32 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 sailors | acl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 Leif | case |
| 34 | Leif | Leif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 led | obl:agent |
| 35 | Erikson | Erikson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Leif | flat |
| 36 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lived | conj |
| 37 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 America | compound |
| 38 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 reached | obj |
| 39 | around | around | ADP | _ | 41 year | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 year | det |
| 41 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 reached | obl |
| 42 | 1000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 year | flat |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · perfect | Indigenous peoples | the Americas | for many thousands of years before Columbus | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in americas=Location | |||
| 2 | lead | participle | Norse sailors not said here | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | reach | past | Norse sailors | North America | year | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent america=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:myths:020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.lesson:13.
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, 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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