The Atlantic routes and the slave trade, sentence 0

A sailing ship could not go straight wherever it liked: it had to follow the winds.

Who acts: sailing ship, ship · What happens: not go, like, have, follow · To what, where: winds

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Atlantic routes and the slave trade» 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 (sailing ship, ship), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ship	det
2	sailing	sailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ship	compound
3	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	10 liked	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 liked	nsubj
10	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	advcl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 follow	mark
15	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 winds	det
17	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 follow	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not go	could	a sailing ship		straight property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	like	past	ship		wherever property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	have	past	ship			tree rules
4	follow	to-infinitive	ship not said here	the winds		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=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:030-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade.lesson:0.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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