The Atlantic routes and the slave trade, sentence 1

Across the Atlantic ships went out with the trade winds in the south and came home with the westerlies in the north, a great loop linking Europe, Africa and the Americas.

Who acts: ships, great loop · What happens: go out, come, link · To what, where: great loop, Europe

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 (ships, great loop), 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	Across	across	ADP	_	3 Atlantic	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ships	det
3	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ships	nmod
4	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 winds	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 winds	det
9	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 winds	compound
10	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 south	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 south	det
13	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 winds	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 westerlies	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 westerlies	det
19	westerlies	westerly	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 came	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 north	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 north	det
22	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 westerlies	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 loop	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 loop	amod
26	loop	loop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
27	linking	link	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 loop	acl
28	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 linking	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Africa	punct
30	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Europe	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Americas	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Americas	det
33	Americas	Americas	PROPN	Number=Plur	28 Europe	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go out	past	the ships across Atlantic	a great loop	with the trade winds in the south; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wind=Co-Agent
2	come	past	the ships across Atlantic not said here		with the westerlies in the north; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	link	gerund	a great loop not said here	Europe and Africa and the Americas		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent europe=Patient

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:1.

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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