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title: The Spanish forced Indigenous people to mine the silver mountain of… — Gemstones and precious metals · tree and pragmatics
description: The Spanish forced Indigenous people to mine the silver mountain of Potosí in Bolivia, and many thousands died there. Who acts: Spanish, Indigenous people, many thousands. A sentence of the lesson «Gemstones and precious metals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Gemstones and precious metals, sentence 17

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The Spanish forced Indigenous people to mine the silver mountain of Potosí in Bolivia, and many thousands died there.

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**Who acts:** Spanish, Indigenous people, many thousands · **What happens:** force, mine, die · **To what, where:** Indigenous people, silver mountain, Bolivia

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gemstones and precious metals» 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 (Spanish, Indigenous people, many thousands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:051-gemstones-and-precious-metals.lesson:17
# text = The Spanish forced Indigenous people to mine the silver mountain of Potosí in Bolivia, and many thousands died there.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 051-gemstones-and-precious-metals.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Indigenous	Indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	mine	mine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Potosí	Potosí	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Bolivia	Bolivia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **force** | past | the Spanish | Indigenous people |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **mine** | to-infinitive | Indigenous people *not said here* | the silver mountain of Potosí |  | Bolivia |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme in bolivia=Location |
| 3 | **die** | past | many thousands |  |  | there |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:051-gemstones-and-precious-metals.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): R5-strong ×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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