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title: Saying Europeans discovered a land forgets the people who had lived… — Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the pe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying Europeans discovered a land forgets the people who had lived there for thousands of years. Who acts: Europeans, Saying, people. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 14

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Saying Europeans discovered a land forgets the people who had lived there for thousands of years.

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**Who acts:** Europeans, Saying, people · **What happens:** say, discover, forget, live · **To what, where:** land, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there» 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 (Europeans, Saying, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:027-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there.lesson:14
# text = Saying Europeans discovered a land forgets the people who had lived there for thousands of years.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 027-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there.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): no change
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	Europeans	european	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	forgets	forget	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **discover** | past | Europeans | a land |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic |
| 3 | **forget** | present | Saying | the people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | past · perfect | the people |  |  | there |  | for thousands of years | vn exist-47.1-1 «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:027-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there.lesson:14`.

**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): no change. **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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