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title: Indigenous peoples are still here, about 476 million people across a… — The people who were already there: what colonisa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Indigenous peoples are still here, about 476 million people across about 90 countries, and many are reviving their languages, rights and land; the UN adopted a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007. Who acts: Indigenous peoples, many, UN. A sentence of the lesson «The people who we
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# The people who were already there: what colonisation did, sentence 17

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Indigenous peoples are still here, about 476 million people across about 90 countries, and many are reviving their languages, rights and land; the UN adopted a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007.

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**Who acts:** Indigenous peoples, many, UN · **What happens:** be, revive, adopt · **To what, where:** languages, Declaration, Rights

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The people who were already there: what colonisation did» 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 peoples, many, UN), 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:17
# text = Indigenous peoples are still here, about 476 million people across about 90 countries, and many are reviving their languages, rights and land; the UN adopted a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	476	476	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
9	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj
11	across	across	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	reviving	revive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Declaration	declaration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Rights	Right	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	Indigenous	Indigenous	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	2007	2007	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | present | Indigenous peoples |  |  |  | still | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **revive** | present · progressive | many | people's languages and rights and land |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent language=Patient |
| 3 | **adopt** | past | the UN | a Declaration |  | the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |  | in 2007 | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent declaration=Theme |

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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:036-the-people-who-were-already-there.lesson:17`.

**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): 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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