--- title: Native nations had lived across North America for thousands of years… — The United States: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: Native nations had lived across North America for thousands of years when, in the 1600s and 1700s, English settlers founded thirteen colonies along the east coast, from Massachusetts to Georgia, on Native land. Who acts: Native nations, English settlers. A sentence of the lesson «The United States: --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/0/) [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/) / [The United States: a short story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/) / 0 # The United States: a short story, sentence 0 Native nations had lived across North America for thousands of years when, in the 1600s and 1700s, English settlers founded thirteen colonies along the east coast, from Massachusetts to Georgia, on Native land. **Who acts:** Native nations, English settlers · **What happens:** live, found · **To what, where:** North America, thirteen colonies, 1600s This is a sentence of the lesson «The United States: a short story» 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 (Native nations, English settlers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:038-the-united-states-a-short-story.lesson:0 # text = Native nations had lived across North America for thousands of years when, in the 1600s and 1700s, English settlers founded thirteen colonies along the east coast, from Massachusetts to Georgia, on Native land. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 038-the-united-states-a-short-story.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 Native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 lived live VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 across across ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 1600s 1600 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 22 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 1700s 1700 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 settlers settler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 founded found VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 23 thirteen thirteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 colonies colony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 along along ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 east east ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Massachusetts Massachusetts PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Georgia Georgia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 Native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past · perfect | Native nations | | | North America | | for thousands of years; on Native land | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location | | 2 | **found** | past | English settlers | thirteen colonies | | the 1600s and 1700s | | along the east coast; from Massachusetts to Georgia | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=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:038-the-united-states-a-short-story.lesson:0`. **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/). - ← previous: [Britain and Ireland: a short story, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/17/) - next →: [The United States: a short story, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/)