--- title: Cahokia, near today's St Louis in the USA, was built by Mississippia… — Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every… · tree and pragmatics description: Cahokia, near today's St Louis in the USA, was built by Mississippian people and had perhaps 10,000 to 20,000 people around 1100, about as many as London then; the numbers are estimates. Who acts: Mississippian people, numbers. 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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 (Mississippian people, numbers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:074-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today.lesson:13 # text = Cahokia, near today's St Louis in the USA, was built by Mississippian people and had perhaps 10,000 to 20,000 people around 1100, about as many as London then; the numbers are estimates. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 074-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Cahokia Cahokia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 near near ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 4 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 St St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Louis Louis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 Mississippian Mississippian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:agent _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 20 10,000 10000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 20,000 20000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nmod _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 24 around around ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 1100 1100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 as as ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 30 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 estimates estimate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 38 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | past · passive | Mississippian people | Cahokia | | | then | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | | 2 | **have** | past | Mississippian people *not said here* | 10,000 people | | 1100 | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | the numbers | estimates | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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