Latin America and the Caribbean, sentence 10

In 1494 Spain and Portugal agreed in the Treaty of Tordesillas to divide newly found lands along a line 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, which gave Portugal the eastern bulge of South America.

Who acts: Spain, 370 leagues · What happens: agree, divide, find, give · To what, where: 1494, found lands, eastern bulge, Portugal

This is a sentence of the lesson «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography 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 (Spain, 370 leagues), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 1494	case
2	1494	1494	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 agreed	obl
3	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 agreed	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Portugal	cc
5	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Spain	conj
6	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 Treaty	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Treaty	det
9	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 agreed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Tordesillas	case
11	Tordesillas	Tordesillas	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Treaty	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 divide	mark
13	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 agreed	xcomp
14	newly	newly	ADV	_	15 found	advmod
15	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 lands	amod
16	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 divide	obj
17	along	along	ADP	_	19 line	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 line	det
19	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 divide	obl
20	370	370	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 leagues	nummod
21	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 divide	obl
22	west	west	ADV	_	21 leagues	advmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 islands	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 islands	det
25	Cape	Cape	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Verde	compound
26	Verde	Verde	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 islands	compound
27	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 west	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gave	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 gave	nsubj
30	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 leagues	acl:relcl
31	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 gave	iobj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bulge	det
33	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bulge	amod
34	bulge	bulge	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gave	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 America	case
36	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 America	compound
37	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 bulge	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	Spain and Portugal			1494	in the Treaty of Tordesillas	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	divide not said to happen	to-infinitive	Spain and Portugal not said here	found lands			along a line; 370 leagues obl	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme
3	find	participle					newly property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	give	past	370 leagues	the eastern bulge of South America	Portugal			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent portugal=Recipient bulge=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, 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:geography:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson:10.

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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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.

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