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title: In approximately 1000 AD, the Norse built a small short-lived encamp… — Canada · tree and pragmatics
description: In approximately 1000 AD, the Norse built a small short-lived encampment that was occupied sporadically for perhaps 20 years at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland. Who acts: Norse, small short lived encampment. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Canada» with its dependency tree and pragm
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# Canada, sentence 51

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From Wikipedia, [«Canada»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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In approximately 1000 AD, the Norse built a small short-lived encampment that was occupied sporadically for perhaps 20 years at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland.

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**Who acts:** Norse, small short lived encampment · **What happens:** build, live, be · **To what, where:** small short lived encampment, 1000 AD

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Canada». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Norse, small short lived encampment), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Canada:51
# text = In approximately 1000 AD, the Norse built a small short-lived encampment that was occupied sporadically for perhaps 20 years at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	1000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Norse	Norse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	amod	_	_
14	encampment	encampment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	occupied	occupied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	sporadically	sporadically	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	L'Anse	l'anse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	aux	aux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Newfoundland	Newfoundland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | the Norse | a small short lived encampment |  | 1000 AD |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent encampment=Product |
| 2 | **live** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | a small short lived encampment |  |  |  | year | occupied, sporadically *property* | tree rules |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Canada», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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