--- title: When Europeans arrived in 1492, tens of millions of people lived in… — The people who were already there: what colonisa… · tree and pragmatics description: When Europeans arrived in 1492, tens of millions of people lived in the Americas, in cities, farming villages and many nations. Who acts: Europeans, tens. 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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 (Europeans, tens), 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:5 # text = When Europeans arrived in 1492, tens of millions of people lived in the Americas, in cities, farming villages and many nations. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 Europeans European PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 3 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 1492 1492 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 tens ten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Americas Americas PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 20 farming farm VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:amod 21 villages village NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 25 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** | past | Europeans | | | 1492 | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **live** | past | tens of millions of people | | | the Americas | | in cities and farming villages and many nations | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in americas=Location | | 3 | **farm** | gerund | | | | | | | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:geography:036-the-people-who-were-already-there.lesson:5`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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