Latin America and the Caribbean, sentence 2
In 1494, in the Treaty of Tordesillas, Spain and Portugal drew a line 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, and the eastern bulge of South America fell on Portugal's side.
Who acts: Spain, eastern bulge · What happens: draw, fall · To what, where: line, 1494, side
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, eastern bulge), 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 | 13 drew | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1494 | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Treaty | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Treaty | det |
| 6 | Treaty | Treaty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 drew | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Tordesillas | case |
| 8 | Tordesillas | Tordesillas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Treaty | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Spain | punct |
| 10 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 drew | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Portugal | cc |
| 12 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Spain | conj |
| 13 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 line | det |
| 15 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drew | obj |
| 16 | 370 | 370 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 leagues | nummod |
| 17 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 line | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | west | west | ADV | _ | 23 islands | advmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 islands | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 islands | det |
| 21 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 islands | compound |
| 22 | Verde | Verde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 islands | compound |
| 23 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 leagues | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fell | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 fell | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bulge | det |
| 27 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bulge | amod |
| 28 | bulge | bulge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fell | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 America | case |
| 30 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 America | compound |
| 31 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 bulge | nmod |
| 32 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 drew | conj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 side | case |
| 34 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 side | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 Portugal | case |
| 36 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fell | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Spain and Portugal | a line 370 leagues of the Cape Verde islands | 1494 | in the Treaty of Tordesillas | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent line=Theme in 1494=Destination | ||
| 2 | fall | past | the eastern bulge of South America | Portugal's side | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
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:2.
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 ×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.
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