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title: Near today's St Louis stood Cahokia, a city of perhaps 15,000 people… — Native peoples of North America · tree and pragmatics
description: Near today's St Louis stood Cahokia, a city of perhaps 15,000 people about 900 years ago, with huge earth mounds. Who acts: St Louis. A sentence of the lesson «Native peoples of North America» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Native peoples of North America, sentence 16

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Near today's St Louis stood Cahokia, a city of perhaps 15,000 people about 900 years ago, with huge earth mounds.

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**Who acts:** St Louis · **What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** Cahokia

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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 (St Louis), 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:16
# text = Near today's St Louis stood Cahokia, a city of perhaps 15,000 people about 900 years ago, with huge earth mounds.
# 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
1	Near	near	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Cahokia	Cahokia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	15,000	15000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	900	900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:amod
22	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	mounds	mound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **stand** | past | today's St Louis | Cahokia |  |  |  | with huge earth mounds | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cahokia=Stimulus |

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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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**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.

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