--- title: Millions of immigrants came to America from Europe, Asia and Latin A… — The United States: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: Millions of immigrants came to America from Europe, Asia and Latin America, many passing the Statue of Liberty, a giant statue holding up a torch, a gift from France, and Ellis Island in New York. Who acts: Millions, many, giant statue. 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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 (Millions, many, giant statue), 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:15 # text = Millions of immigrants came to America from Europe, Asia and Latin America, many passing the Statue of Liberty, a giant statue holding up a torch, a gift from France, and Ellis Island in New York. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 immigrants immigrant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 Latin Latin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 nsubj _ _ 16 passing pass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Statue statue PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Liberty Liberty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 statue statue NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 25 holding hold VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 torch torch NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 Ellis Ellis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 Island Island PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Millions of immigrants | | America | Europe and Asia and Latin | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to america=Initial\_Location from europe=Destination | | 2 | **pass** | gerund | many | the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island in New York | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme statue=Trajectory | | 3 | **hold up** | gerund | a giant statue *not said here* | a torch | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot torch=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:038-the-united-states-a-short-story.lesson:15`. **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): R8-pos-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: [The United States: a short story, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/14/) - next →: [The United States: a short story, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/)