--- title: Early European colonies also included the thriving Dutch colony of N… — United States · tree and pragmatics description: Early European colonies also included the thriving Dutch colony of New Nederland (settled 1626, present-day New York) and the small Swedish colony of New Sweden (settled 1638 in what became Delaware). Who acts: Early European colonies, New Nederland, New Sweden. 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Early European colonies also included the thriving Dutch colony of New Nederland (settled 1626, present-day New York) and the small Swedish colony of New Sweden (settled 1638 in what became Delaware). **Who acts:** Early European colonies, New Nederland, New Sweden · **What happens:** include, thrive, settle, become · **To what, where:** thriving Dutch colony, 1626, 1638 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 (Early European colonies, New Nederland, New Sweden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:49 # text = Early European colonies also included the thriving Dutch colony of New Nederland (settled 1626, present-day New York) and the small Swedish colony of New Sweden (settled 1638 in what became Delaware). 1 Early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 colonies colony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 also also ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 included include VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 thriving thrive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 8 Dutch dutch ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 colony colony NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 Nederland Nederland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 settled settle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 15 1626 1626 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 20 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ _ 21 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 Swedish Swedish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 colony colony NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 Sweden Sweden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 settled settle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 33 1638 1638 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 in in SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 36 nsubj _ _ 36 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 37 Delaware Delaware PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **include** | past | Early European colonies | the thriving Dutch colony of New Nederland and present day New York and the small Swedish colony of New Sweden | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Theme | | 2 | **thrive** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **settle** | participle | New Nederland *not said here* | 1626 | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **settle** | participle | New Sweden *not said here* | 1638 | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **become** | past | | | | | | what *nsubj*; Delaware *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_States/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_States/50/) - ↑ back to [United States](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/United_States/)