The spice trade and the Indian Ocean, sentence 12

Malacca on the Malay Peninsula grew into one of Asia's greatest ports in the 1400s by controlling the Strait of Malacca, and the Portuguese captured it in 1511.

Who acts: Malacca, Portuguese · What happens: grow, control, capture · To what, where: Strait, 1511

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 (Malacca, Portuguese), 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	Malacca	Malacca	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 Peninsula	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Peninsula	det
4	Malay	Malay	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Peninsula	compound
5	Peninsula	Peninsula	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Malacca	nmod
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 grew	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 ports	case
10	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 ports	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Asia	case
12	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 ports	amod
13	ports	port	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 1400s	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 1400s	det
16	1400s	1400	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	13 ports	nmod
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 controlling	mark
18	controlling	control	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 grew	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Strait	det
20	Strait	Strait	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 controlling	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Malacca	case
22	Malacca	Malacca	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Strait	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 captured	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 captured	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Portuguese	det
26	Portuguese	portuguese	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 captured	nsubj
27	captured	capture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grew	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 captured	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 1511	case
30	1511	1511	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 captured	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Malacca on the Malay Peninsula			into one of Asia's greatest ports in the 1400s result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into one=Result
2	control	gerund	Malacca on the Malay Peninsula not said here	the Strait of Malacca			vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strait=Theme
3	capture	past	the Portuguese	Strait	1511		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: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): no change. 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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