The spice trade and the Indian Ocean, sentence 15

The Portuguese did not simply join the Indian Ocean trade but used warships and forts to force others to buy passes and pay duties.

Who acts: Portuguese, others · What happens: not join, use, force, buy, pay · To what, where: Indian Ocean trade, warships, others, passes, duties

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 (Portuguese, others), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Portuguese	det
2	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 join	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 join	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 join	advmod
5	simply	simply	ADV	_	6 join	advmod
6	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trade	det
8	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trade	amod
9	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 trade	compound
10	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 join	obj
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 used	cc
12	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 join	conj
13	warships	warship	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 used	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 forts	cc
15	forts	fort	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 warships	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 force	mark
17	force	force	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 used	advcl
18	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 force	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 buy	mark
20	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 force	xcomp
21	passes	pass	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 buy	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pay	cc
23	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 buy	conj
24	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pay	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 join	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not join	past · do-support	the Portuguese	the Indian Ocean trade	simply property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Patient
2	use	past	the Portuguese not said here	warships and forts		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warship=Patient
3	force	to-infinitive	the Portuguese not said here	others		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent other=Recipient clause=Topic
4	buy	to-infinitive	others not said here	passes		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=Theme
5	pay	infinitive	others not said here	duties		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Asset

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:15.

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): 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.

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