United States, sentence 39
From Wikipedia, «United States», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The first inhabitants of North America migrated from Siberia approximately 15,000 years ago, either across the Bering land bridge or along the now-submerged Ice Age coastline.
Who acts: first inhabitants · What happens: migrate, submerge · To what, where: Siberia
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United States». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first inhabitants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 inhabitants | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 inhabitants | amod |
| 3 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 migrated | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 America | case |
| 5 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 America | compound |
| 6 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 inhabitants | nmod |
| 7 | migrated | migrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Siberia | case |
| 9 | Siberia | Siberia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 migrated | obl |
| 10 | approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 11 15,000 | advmod |
| 11 | 15,000 | 15000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 migrated | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bridge | punct |
| 15 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 20 bridge | cc:preconj |
| 16 | across | across | ADP | _ | 20 bridge | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bridge | det |
| 18 | Bering | Bering | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 bridge | compound |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bridge | compound |
| 20 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 migrated | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 coastline | cc |
| 22 | along | along | ADP | _ | 29 coastline | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 coastline | det |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 submerged | advmod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 now | punct |
| 26 | submerged | submerge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 Age | amod |
| 27 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Age | compound |
| 28 | Age | Age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 coastline | compound |
| 29 | coastline | coastline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bridge | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 migrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | migrate | past | the first inhabitants of North America | Siberia | across the Bering land bridge or the Age coastline; ago property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | submerge | participle | now | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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.
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