--- title: In the 1800s the USA spread west to the Pacific with wagon trains, g… — The United States: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: In the 1800s the USA spread west to the Pacific with wagon trains, gold rushes and railways, but this meant taking land from Native nations. Who acts: USA, this. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (USA, this), 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:14 # text = In the 1800s the USA spread west to the Pacific with wagon trains, gold rushes and railways, but this meant taking land from Native nations. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 1800s 1800 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 west west ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Pacific Pacific PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 wagon wagon NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 trains train NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 rushes rush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 railways railway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 nsubj _ _ 22 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 23 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advcl 24 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 Native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | past | the USA | | | the 1800s | | to the Pacific; with wagon trains and gold rushes and railways; west *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1800=Location | | 2 | **mean** | past | this | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **take** *not said to happen* | gerund | this *not said here* | land | | Native nations | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent land=Theme from nation=Initial\_Location | 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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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: [The United States: a short story, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/13/) - next →: [The United States: a short story, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/)