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Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 12

Portugal seized the port of Malacca in 1511 to control the busy sea road of the spice trade there, and the Dutch took it in 1641.

Who acts: Portugal, Dutch · What happens: seize, control, take · To what, where: port, 1511, busy sea road, road, 1641

This is a sentence of the lesson «Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors» 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 (Portugal, Dutch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

nsubjdetobjcasenmodcaseoblmarkadvcldetamodcompoundobjcasedetcompoundnmodadvmodpunctccdetnsubjconjobjcaseoblpunctrootPortugalPROPNseizedVERBtheDETportNOUNofADPMalaccaPROPNinADP1511NUMtoPARTcontrolVERBtheDETbusyADJseaNOUNroadNOUNofADPtheDETspiceNOUNtradeNOUNthereADV,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETDutchNOUNtookVERBitPRONinADP1641NUM.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1PortugalPortugalPROPNNumber=Sing2 seizednsubj
2seizedseizeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 portdet
4portportNOUNNumber=Sing2 seizedobj
5ofofADP_6 Malaccacase
6MalaccaMalaccaPROPNNumber=Sing4 portnmod
7ininADP_8 1511case
815111511NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card2 seizedobl
9totoPART_10 controlmark
10controlcontrolVERBVerbForm=Inf2 seizedadvcl
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 roaddet
12busybusyADJDegree=Pos14 roadamod
13seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing14 roadcompound
14roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing10 controlobj
15ofofADP_18 tradecase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 tradedet
17spicespiceNOUNNumber=Sing18 tradecompound
18tradetradeNOUNNumber=Sing14 roadnmod
19therethereADVPronType=Dem18 tradeadvmod
20,,PUNCT_24 tookpunct
21andandCCONJ_24 tookcc
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 Dutchdet
23DutchdutchNOUNNumber=Sing24 tooknsubj
24tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 seizedconj
25ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 tookobj
26ininADP_27 1641case
2716411641NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card24 tookobl
28..PUNCT_2 seizedpunct

Pragmatics

form
statement
act
assert
voice
narrator
polarity
none
teacher
kept the draft
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seizepastPortugalthe port of Malacca1511vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent port=Theme
2controlto-infinitivePortugal not said herethe busy sea road of the spice tradevn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme
3takepastthe Dutchroad1641vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in 1641=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:019-straits-the-narrow-doors.lesson:12.

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): 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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