Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires, sentence 0

Portugal and Castile sat on the edge of Europe, facing the open Atlantic, so while Venice owned the old Mediterranean routes, they looked for new ones across the ocean.

Who acts: Portugal, Venice · What happens: sit, face, own, look · To what, where: edge, open Atlantic, old Mediterranean routes

This is a sentence of the lesson «Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires» 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 (Portugal, 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	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Castile	cc
3	Castile	Castile	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Portugal	conj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 edge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 edge	det
7	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Europe	case
9	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 edge	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 facing	punct
11	facing	face	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Atlantic	det
13	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Atlantic	amod
14	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 facing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 owned	punct
16	so	so	CCONJ	_	19 owned	cc
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 owned	mark
18	Venice	Venice	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 owned	nsubj
19	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 routes	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 routes	amod
22	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 routes	amod
23	routes	route	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 owned	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 looked	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 looked	nsubj
26	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 ones	case
28	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ones	amod
29	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 looked	obl
30	across	across	ADP	_	32 ocean	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ocean	det
32	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ones	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Portugal and Castile			the edge of Europe		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location
2	face	gerund	Portugal and Castile not said here		the open Atlantic			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme atlantic=Destination
3	own	past	Venice	the old Mediterranean routes				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot route=Theme
4	look	past	Portugal				for new ones across the ocean	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for one=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:033-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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