The spice trade and the Indian Ocean, sentence 9
Cloves and nutmeg grew only on a few tiny islands in the Moluccas, now part of Indonesia.
Who acts: Cloves · What happens: grow · To what, where: few tiny islands
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), 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 | _ | 16 part | punct |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | _ | 16 part | advmod |
| 16 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Moluccas | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Indonesia | case |
| 18 | Indonesia | Indonesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 part | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | 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 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location |
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:9.
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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