--- title: In the 1600s and 1700s English settlers founded thirteen colonies on… — The United States: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: In the 1600s and 1700s English settlers founded thirteen colonies on America's east coast, from Massachusetts to Georgia, on land where Native nations already lived. Who acts: English settlers, Native nations. 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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 (English settlers, Native nations), 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:5 # text = In the 1600s and 1700s English settlers founded thirteen colonies on America's east coast, from Massachusetts to Georgia, on land where Native nations already lived. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 1600s 1600 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 8 obl _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 1700s 1700 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 3 conj _ _ 6 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 settlers settler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 founded found VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 thirteen thirteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 colonies colony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 east east ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Massachusetts Massachusetts PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Georgia Georgia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 28 advmod _ _ 25 Native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 already already ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **found** | past | English settlers | thirteen colonies and Massachusetts to Georgia | | the 1600s and 1700s | | on America's east coast; on land | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent colony=Theme on land=Source | | 2 | **live** | past | Native nations | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:5`. **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): R5-strong ×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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/4/) - next →: [The United States: a short story, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/)