--- title: In the dry Southwest the Ancestral Puebloans built houses of stone a… — Native peoples of North America · tree and pragmatics description: In the dry Southwest the Ancestral Puebloans built houses of stone and adobe in cliffs and canyons, like Mesa Verde, farmed by carefully collecting the little rain that fell, and Pueblo peoples still live there today. Who acts: Ancestral Puebloans, little rain, Pueblo peoples. 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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 (Ancestral Puebloans, little rain, Pueblo peoples), 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:15 # text = In the dry Southwest the Ancestral Puebloans built houses of stone and adobe in cliffs and canyons, like Mesa Verde, farmed by carefully collecting the little rain that fell, and Pueblo peoples still live there today. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Southwest Southwest PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 6 Ancestral Ancestral PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Puebloans puebloan PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 adobe adobe NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 cliffs cliff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 canyons canyon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 Mesa mesa NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Verde verde NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 farmed farm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 24 by by SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 collecting collect VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 Pueblo Pueblo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 36 still still ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 38 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ _ 39 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **build** | past | the Ancestral Puebloans | houses of stone and adobe in cliffs and canyons and Mesa Verde | | the dry Southwest | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product | | 2 | **farm** | participle | | Mesa Verde *not said here* | | | | | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **collect** | gerund | | the little rain | | | | carefully *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme | | 4 | **fall** | past | the little rain | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **live** | present | Pueblo peoples | | | there | still; today | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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. 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