--- title: Americans celebrate Thanksgiving every November, and for many Native… — The United States: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: Americans celebrate Thanksgiving every November, and for many Native people it is also a day of mourning for what followed. Who acts: Americans, Wampanoag, mourning. 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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 (Americans, Wampanoag, mourning), 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:9 # text = Americans celebrate Thanksgiving every November, and for many Native people it is also a day of mourning for what followed. # 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 1 Americans American PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 celebrate celebrate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Thanksgiving Thanksgiving PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 November November PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 Native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 also also ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 mourning mourning NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 21 nsubj _ _ 21 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **celebrate** | present | Americans | Thanksgiving | | | november | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanksgiving=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | Wampanoag | a day | | | | for many Native people; of mourning | tree rules | | 3 | **follow** | past | mourning | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:9`. **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. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/8/) - next →: [The United States: a short story, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/)