The spice trade and the Indian Ocean, sentence 17
In 1621 the Dutch East India Company killed or enslaved most people of the Banda Islands to control nutmeg.
Who acts: Dutch East India Company · What happens: kill, enslave, control · To what, where: 1621, most people, nutmeg
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 (Dutch East India Company), 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 1621 | case |
| 2 | 1621 | 1621 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 killed | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Company | det |
| 4 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Company | amod |
| 5 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Company | flat |
| 6 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Company | flat |
| 7 | Company | Company | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 killed | nsubj |
| 8 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 enslaved | cc |
| 10 | enslaved | enslave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 killed | conj |
| 11 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 people | amod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 enslaved | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Islands | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Islands | det |
| 15 | Banda | Banda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Islands | compound |
| 16 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 people | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 control | mark |
| 18 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 enslaved | advcl |
| 19 | nutmeg | nutmeg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 control | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | the Dutch East India Company | 1621 | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | enslave | past | the Dutch East India Company not said here | most people of the Banda Islands | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 3 | control | to-infinitive | the Dutch East India Company not said here | nutmeg | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nutmeg=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:17.
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. 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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