Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean, sentence 1

To sail safely to the spice markets of the East, Venice held a chain of harbours down the Adriatic and in Greece, like a row of petrol stations along a long motorway.

Who acts: Venice · What happens: sail, hold, market · To what, where: spice markets, chain, East

This is a sentence of the lesson «Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean» 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 (Venice), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 sail	mark
2	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 held	advcl
3	safely	safely	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 sail	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 markets	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 markets	det
6	spice	spice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 markets	compound
7	markets	market	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sail	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 East	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 East	det
10	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 markets	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sail	punct
12	Venice	Venice	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 held	nsubj
13	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 chain	det
15	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 held	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 harbours	case
17	harbours	harbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 chain	nmod
18	down	down	ADP	_	20 Adriatic	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Adriatic	det
20	Adriatic	Adriatic	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 harbours	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Greece	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 Greece	case
23	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 held	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 row	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 row	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 row	det
27	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 held	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 stations	case
29	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stations	compound
30	stations	station	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 row	nmod
31	along	along	ADP	_	34 motorway	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 motorway	det
33	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 motorway	amod
34	motorway	motorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stations	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 held	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sail	to-infinitive	Venice not said here		the spice markets of the East	safely property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to market=Trajectory
2	hold	past	Venice	a chain of harbours down the Adriatic		like a row of petrol stations along a long motorway	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Theme
3	market			the East			nom market «act transitive»: of=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:032-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean.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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