--- title: Indigenous peoples (the first peoples of a land), millions of them,… — Explorers, scientists and inventors · tree and pragmatics description: Indigenous peoples (the first peoples of a land), millions of them, had lived in the Americas for many thousands of years before Columbus, and Norse sailors led by Leif Erikson reached North America around the year 1000. Who acts: Indigenous peoples, Norse sailors. A sentence of the lesson «Explorer --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Explorers, scientists and inventors](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/) / 13 # Explorers, scientists and inventors, sentence 13 Indigenous peoples (the first peoples of a land), millions of them, had lived in the Americas for many thousands of years before Columbus, and Norse sailors led by Leif Erikson reached North America around the year 1000. **Who acts:** Indigenous peoples, Norse sailors · **What happens:** live, lead, reach · **To what, where:** Americas, Norse sailors, North America This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers, scientists and inventors» of the myths 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 (Indigenous peoples, Norse sailors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.lesson:13 # text = Indigenous peoples (the first peoples of a land), millions of them, had lived in the Americas for many thousands of years before Columbus, and Norse sailors led by Leif Erikson reached North America around the year 1000. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Indigenous indigenous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 amod _ _ 6 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 appos _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 lived live VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Americas Americas PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 before before ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Columbus Columbus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 30 Norse norse ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 32 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Leif Leif PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl:agent _ _ 35 Erikson Erikson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ _ 36 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 37 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 around around ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 1000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 flat _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past · perfect | Indigenous peoples | | | the Americas | | for many thousands of years before Columbus | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in americas=Location | | 2 | **lead** | participle | | Norse sailors *not said here* | | | | | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | | 3 | **reach** | past | Norse sailors | North America | | | year | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent america=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:myths:020-explorers-scientists-and-inventors.lesson:13`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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: [Explorers, scientists and inventors, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/12/) - next →: [Explorers, scientists and inventors, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/)