--- title: Many eastern nations farmed corn, beans and squash together, called… — Native peoples of North America · tree and pragmatics description: Many eastern nations farmed corn, beans and squash together, called the Three Sisters, because the plants help each other grow; corn, first grown in the Americas, now feeds people all over the world. Who acts: Many eastern nations, plants, other, corn. A sentence of the lesson «Native peoples of Nor --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/13/) [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/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Native peoples of North America](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/) / 13 # Native peoples of North America, sentence 13 Many eastern nations farmed corn, beans and squash together, called the Three Sisters, because the plants help each other grow; corn, first grown in the Americas, now feeds people all over the world. **Who acts:** Many eastern nations, plants, other, corn · **What happens:** farm, call, help, grow, feed · **To what, where:** corn, each, Americas, people, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Native peoples of North America» of the history 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 (Many eastern nations, plants, other, corn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:017-native-peoples-of-north-america.lesson:13 # text = Many eastern nations farmed corn, beans and squash together, called the Three Sisters, because the plants help each other grow; corn, first grown in the Americas, now feeds people all over the world. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 017-native-peoples-of-north-america.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 eastern eastern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 farmed farm VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 beans bean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 squash squash NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 together together ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 Three Three PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Sisters sister PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 21 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 20 obj _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 nsubj _ _ 23 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:acl:relcl 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 25 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 28 advmod _ _ 28 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 acl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Americas Americas PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 now now ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 all all ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 37 over over ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **farm** | past | Many eastern nations | corn and beans and squash | | | | together *property* | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient | | 2 | **call** | participle | Many eastern nations *not said here* | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **help** | present | the plants | each | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent each=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **grow** | present | other | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | participle | | corn *not said here* | | the Americas | | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in americas=Location | | 6 | **feed** | present | corn | | people | the world | now | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | 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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