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title: People have always belonged to many groups at once: family, village,… — From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms,… · tree and pragmatics
description: People have always belonged to many groups at once: family, village, people, faith, country and the world. Who acts: People. A sentence of the lesson «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries, sentence 24

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People have always belonged to many groups at once: family, village, people, faith, country and the world.

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**Who acts:** People · **What happens:** belong

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This is a sentence of the lesson «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:24
# text = People have always belonged to many groups at once: family, village, people, faith, country and the world.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.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): no change
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	belonged	belong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present · perfect | People |  |  |  |  | to many groups; always *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:066-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries.lesson:24`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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