Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires, sentence 10
Columbus, an Italian sailing for Castile, reached the Caribbean in 1492 while trying to reach Asia by sailing west.
Who acts: Columbus · What happens: reach, try, sail · To what, where: Caribbean, 1492, Asia
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 (Columbus), 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 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sailing | punct |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sailing | det |
| 4 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sailing | amod |
| 5 | sailing | sailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Columbus | appos |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Castile | case |
| 7 | Castile | Castile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sailing | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Columbus | punct |
| 9 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Caribbean | det |
| 11 | Caribbean | Caribbean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1492 | case |
| 13 | 1492 | 1492 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 reached | obl |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 trying | mark |
| 15 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 reached | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 reach | mark |
| 17 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 trying | xcomp |
| 18 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 reach | obj |
| 19 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 20 sailing | mark |
| 20 | sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 reach | advcl |
| 21 | west | west | ADV | _ | 20 sailing | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Columbus | the Caribbean | 1492 | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent caribbean=Theme | |||
| 2 | try | gerund | Columbus not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | reach not said to happen | to-infinitive | Columbus not said here | Asia | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent asia=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sail | gerund | Columbus not said here | west property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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:10.
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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