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title: The first inhabitants of North America migrated from Siberia approxi… — United States · tree and pragmatics
description: The first inhabitants of North America migrated from Siberia approximately 15,000 years ago, either across the Bering land bridge or along the now-submerged Ice Age coastline. Who acts: first inhabitants. A sentence of Wikipedia's «United States» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# United States, sentence 39

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From Wikipedia, [«United States»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States), 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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The first inhabitants of North America migrated from Siberia approximately 15,000 years ago, either across the Bering land bridge or along the now-submerged Ice Age coastline.

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**Who acts:** first inhabitants · **What happens:** migrate, submerge · **To what, where:** Siberia

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «United States». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first inhabitants), 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:United_States:39
# text = The first inhabitants of North America migrated from Siberia approximately 15,000 years ago, either across the Bering land bridge or along the now-submerged Ice Age coastline.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	migrated	migrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Siberia	Siberia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	15,000	15000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc:preconj	_	_
16	across	across	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	Bering	Bering	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
22	along	along	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	submerged	submerge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
27	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	coastline	coastline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **migrate** | past | the first inhabitants of North America |  |  | Siberia |  | across the Bering land bridge or the Age coastline; ago *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **submerge** | participle |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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, «United States», 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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