--- title: But the game's "empty" colonial land was never empty: millions of Na… — The United States · tree and pragmatics description: But the game's "empty" colonial land was never empty: millions of Native Americans lived there, and disease, wars and forced removals took their lands and many lives. Who acts: empty colonial land, millions, disease. A sentence of the lesson «The United States» of the geography course of Mova's prim --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [The United States](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/) / 1 # The United States, sentence 1 But the game's "empty" colonial land was never empty: millions of Native Americans lived there, and disease, wars and forced removals took their lands and many lives. **Who acts:** empty colonial land, millions, disease · **What happens:** not be, live, force, take · **To what, where:** lands This is a sentence of the lesson «The United States» 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 (empty colonial land, millions, disease), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:009-the-united-states.lesson:1 # text = But the game's "empty" colonial land was never empty: millions of Native Americans lived there, and disease, wars and forced removals took their lands and many lives. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 009-the-united-states.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 colonial colonial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 Native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 Americans American PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advcl 19 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 wars war NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 removals removal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 34 . . 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 | **not** **is** | past | the game's empty colonial land | | | | | empty *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | past | millions of Native Americans | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **force** | participle | | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **take** | past | disease and wars | removals's lands and many lives | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | 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:009-the-united-states.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [The British Isles and the United Kingdom, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/8-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom/17/) - next →: [The United States, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/9-the-united-states/)