--- title: But this is not only the past: millions of Native people live today,… — Native peoples of North America · tree and pragmatics description: But this is not only the past: millions of Native people live today, keeping their languages and nations alive. Who acts: this, millions. 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 cla --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Native peoples of North America, sentence 7 But this is not only the past: millions of Native people live today, keeping their languages and nations alive. **Who acts:** this, millions · **What happens:** not be, live, keep · **To what, where:** past, languages 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 (this, millions), 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:7 # text = But this is not only the past: millions of Native people live today, keeping their languages and nations alive. # 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 ×1 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 past past NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 Native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 14 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | this | the past | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | millions of Native people | | | | today | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | gerund | millions of Native people *not said here* | People's languages and nations | | | | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:017-native-peoples-of-north-america.lesson:7`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Native peoples of North America, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/6/) - next →: [Native peoples of North America, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/)