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title: There was no single Native American way of life, just as there is no… — Native peoples of North America · tree and pragmatics
description: There was no single Native American way of life, just as there is no single European one. Who acts: single American way, single European one. 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
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# Native peoples of North America, sentence 2

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There was no single Native American way of life, just as there is no single European one.

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**Who acts:** single American way, single European one · **What happens:** be

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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 (single American way, single European one), 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:2
# text = There was no single Native American way of life, just as there is no single European one.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
4	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	Native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
6	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
16	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **be** | past | no single American way of life |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | present | no single European one |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:history:017-native-peoples-of-north-america.lesson:2`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×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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