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title: Really the land was home to millions of people: after 1492 the Indig… — Latin America and the Caribbean · tree and pragmatics
description: Really the land was home to millions of people: after 1492 the Indigenous population collapsed, in many regions by perhaps nine out of ten within a century, mostly from new diseases such as smallpox, along with war and forced labour. Who acts: Indigenous population. A sentence of the lesson «Latin A
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# Latin America and the Caribbean, sentence 4

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Really the land was home to millions of people: after 1492 the Indigenous population collapsed, in many regions by perhaps nine out of ten within a century, mostly from new diseases such as smallpox, along with war and forced labour.

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**Who acts:** Indigenous population · **What happens:** be, collapse, force · **To what, where:** many regions

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography 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 population), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson:4
# text = Really the land was home to millions of people: after 1492 the Indigenous population collapsed, in many regions by perhaps nine out of ten within a century, mostly from new diseases such as smallpox, along with war and forced labour.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson
# annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1492	1492	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Indigenous	Indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
15	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	collapsed	collapse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nmod	_	_
27	within	within	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	diseases	disease	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
35	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	37	case	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	along	along	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	amod	_	_
44	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to millions; of people; home *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **collapse** | past | the Indigenous population |  |  | many regions | after 1492 | by nine out ten within a century and new diseases such smallpox along war and forced labour | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **force** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:geography:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson:4`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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