The Atlantic routes and the slave trade, sentence 9

Sailing ships crossed the Atlantic in a loop, going out with the trade winds in the south and coming back with the westerlies in the north.

Who acts: Sailing ships · What happens: sail, cross, go out, come back · To what, where: Atlantic

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 ships), 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	Sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ships	amod
2	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crossed	nsubj
3	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Atlantic	det
5	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 crossed	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 loop	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 loop	det
8	loop	loop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crossed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 crossed	advcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 going	compound:prt
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 winds	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 winds	det
14	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 winds	compound
15	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 going	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 south	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 south	det
18	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 winds	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 coming	cc
20	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 going	conj
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 coming	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 westerlies	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 westerlies	det
24	westerlies	westerly	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 coming	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 north	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 north	det
27	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 westerlies	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sail	gerund				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	cross	past	Sailing ships	the Atlantic	in a loop	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent atlantic=Patient in loop=Topic
3	go out	gerund	Sailing ships not said here		with the trade winds in the south	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wind=Co-Agent
4	come back	gerund	Sailing ships not said here		with the westerlies in the north	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: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): 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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