--- title: The first lasting English colony was Jamestown in 1607, the Pilgrims… — The United States: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: The first lasting English colony was Jamestown in 1607, the Pilgrims came on the Mayflower in 1620, and the Spanish town of St. Who acts: first lasting English colony, Pilgrims. 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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 (first lasting English colony, Pilgrims), 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:6 # text = The first lasting English colony was Jamestown in 1607, the Pilgrims came on the Mayflower in 1620, and the Spanish town of St. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 3 lasting lasting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 colony colony NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 Jamestown Jamestown PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 1607 1607 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Pilgrims pilgrim PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Mayflower Mayflower PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 1620 1620 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Spanish Spanish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ ``` ## 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 | **is a** | past | the first lasting English colony | Jamestown | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | past | the Pilgrims | | | the Mayflower | | in 1620 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mayflower=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:6`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/5/) - next →: [The United States: a short story, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/)