The spice trade and the Indian Ocean, sentence 2

Cloves and nutmeg grew only on a few tiny islands in the Moluccas, in today's Indonesia; black pepper came mostly from the Malabar coast of south-west India, around Calicut and Cochin.

Who acts: Cloves, black pepper · What happens: grow, come · To what, where: few tiny islands, Malabar coast

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 (Cloves, black pepper), 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	Cloves	clove	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grew	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 nutmeg	cc
3	nutmeg	nutmeg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cloves	conj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	10 islands	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 islands	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 islands	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 islands	amod
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 islands	amod
10	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grew	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 Moluccas	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Moluccas	det
13	Moluccas	Moluccas	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 islands	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Indonesia	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 Indonesia	case
16	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Indonesia	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 today	case
18	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grew	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
20	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pepper	amod
21	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	parataxis
23	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	27 coast	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 coast	det
26	Malabar	Malabar	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 coast	compound
27	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 India	case
29	south	south	ADV	_	31 west	advmod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 south	punct
31	west	west	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 India	amod
32	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 coast	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Calicut	punct
34	around	around	ADP	_	35 Calicut	case
35	Calicut	Calicut	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 Cochin	cc
37	Cochin	Cochin	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Calicut	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Cloves and nutmeg			a few tiny islands in the Moluccas		in today's Indonesia	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location
2	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

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:2.

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, 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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