--- title: In the 1830s the USA forced the Cherokee and other nations of the so… — The people who were already there: what colonisa… · tree and pragmatics description: In the 1830s the USA forced the Cherokee and other nations of the south-east off their lands to the west, and thousands died on the march known as the Trail of Tears. Who acts: USA, thousands. 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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 (USA, thousands), 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:11 # text = In the 1830s the USA forced the Cherokee and other nations of the south-east off their lands to the west, and thousands died on the march known as the Trail of Tears. # 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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 1830s 1830 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 forced force VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det 8 Cherokee Cherokee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:compound 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj 12 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 17 off off ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 march march NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Trail trail PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **force** | past | the USA | | the Cherokee and other nations of the south east | the 1830s | | off nations's lands to the west | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cherokee=Recipient | | 2 | **die** | past | thousands | | | the march | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **know** | participle | | the march *not said here* | | | | as the Trail of Tears | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as trail=Attribute | 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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