--- title: Europa Universalis 5 often paints the Americas, Australia and much o… — The people who were already there: what colonisa… · tree and pragmatics description: Europa Universalis 5 often paints the Americas, Australia and much of Africa as empty land waiting for colonists, but every valley and coast already had people with their own nations, laws, farms and cities. Who acts: Europa Universalis, empty land, valley. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Europa Universalis, empty land, valley), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:036-the-people-who-were-already-there.lesson:0 # text = Europa Universalis 5 often paints the Americas, Australia and much of Africa as empty land waiting for colonists, but every valley and coast already had people with their own nations, laws, farms and cities. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 036-the-people-who-were-already-there.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Europa Europa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:nmod:desc|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 Universalis Universalis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 flat _ _ 4 often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 paints paint VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Americas AMERICAS PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 17 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 colonists colonist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 valley valley NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 already already ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:appos 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 farms farm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **paint** | present | Europa Universalis | the Americas and Australia | | | | as empty land; often *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent americas=Theme as land=Attribute | | 2 | **wait** | gerund | empty land *not said here* | | | | | for colonists | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | past | every valley and coast | people | | | | with valley's own nations and laws and farms and cities | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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. **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. 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