--- title: Millions of Native people live in the USA and Canada today, keeping… — Native peoples of North America · tree and pragmatics description: Millions of Native people live in the USA and Canada today, keeping their languages, ceremonies and nations alive, and many nations have their own governments. Who acts: Millions, many nations. A sentence of the lesson «Native peoples of North America» of the history course of Mova's primary school --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Native peoples of North America, sentence 20 Millions of Native people live in the USA and Canada today, keeping their languages, ceremonies and nations alive, and many nations have their own governments. **Who acts:** Millions, many nations · **What happens:** live, keep, have · **To what, where:** USA, languages, own governments 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 (Millions, many nations), 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:20 # text = Millions of Native people live in the USA and Canada today, keeping their languages, ceremonies and nations alive, and many nations have their own governments. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 Native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 ceremonies ceremony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 20 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 governments government NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Millions of Native people | | | the USA and Canada | today | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in usa=Location | | 2 | **keep** | gerund | Millions of Native people *not said here* | People's languages and ceremonies and nations | | | | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | many nations | nations's own governments | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Patient | 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:history:017-native-peoples-of-north-america.lesson:20`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Native peoples of North America, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/19/) - next →: [The Maya, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/18-the-maya/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/)