The spice trade and the Indian Ocean, sentence 10
Black pepper came mostly from the Malabar coast of south-west India, around Calicut and Cochin, and Vasco da Gama reached Calicut in 1498.
Who acts: Black pepper, Vasco da Gama · What happens: come, reach · To what, where: Malabar coast, Calicut, 1498
This is a sentence of the lesson «The spice trade and the Indian Ocean» 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 (Black pepper, Vasco da Gama), 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 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pepper | amod |
| 2 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 coast | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 coast | det |
| 7 | Malabar | Malabar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 coast | compound |
| 8 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 India | case |
| 10 | south | south | ADV | _ | 12 west | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 south | punct |
| 12 | west | west | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 India | amod |
| 13 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 coast | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Calicut | punct |
| 15 | around | around | ADP | _ | 16 Calicut | case |
| 16 | Calicut | Calicut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Cochin | cc |
| 18 | Cochin | Cochin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Calicut | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 reached | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 reached | cc |
| 21 | Vasco | Vasco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Gama | compound |
| 22 | da | da | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Gama | compound |
| 23 | Gama | Gama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 reached | nsubj |
| 24 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 25 | Calicut | Calicut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 reached | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 1498 | case |
| 27 | 1498 | 1498 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 reached | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Black pepper | the Malabar coast of west India | around Calicut and Cochin; mostly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from coast=Initial_Location around calicut=Destination | |||
| 2 | reach | past | Vasco da Gama | Calicut | 1498 | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent calicut=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:029-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean.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): R6-punct-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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