Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires, sentence 12
The Taíno, the people Columbus met in the Caribbean, were nearly wiped out within a few decades by forced labour, violence and new diseases, though many Caribbean people today have Taíno ancestors.
Who acts: Columbus, forced labour, many Caribbean people · What happens: meet, wipe out, force, have · To what, where: people, Caribbean, Taíno, Taíno ancestors
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, forced labour, many Caribbean people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Taíno | det |
| 2 | Taíno | Taíno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 wiped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Taíno | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Taíno | appos |
| 6 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 people | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Caribbean | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Caribbean | det |
| 10 | Caribbean | Caribbean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Taíno | punct |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wiped | aux:pass |
| 13 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 14 wiped | advmod |
| 14 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 wiped | compound:prt |
| 16 | within | within | ADP | _ | 19 decades | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 decades | det |
| 18 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 decades | amod |
| 19 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wiped | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 labour | case |
| 21 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 labour | amod |
| 22 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wiped | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 violence | punct |
| 24 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 labour | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 diseases | cc |
| 26 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 diseases | amod |
| 27 | diseases | disease | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 labour | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 have | punct |
| 29 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 34 have | mark |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 people | amod |
| 31 | Caribbean | caribbean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 people | amod |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 have | nsubj |
| 33 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 have | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wiped | advcl |
| 35 | Taíno | Taíno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 ancestors | compound |
| 36 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 have | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 wiped | 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 | meet | past | Columbus | the people not said here | the Caribbean | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | wipe out | past · passive | forced labour and violence and new diseases | the Taíno | decade | nearly property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Source | ||
| 3 | force | participle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | have | present | many Caribbean people | Taíno ancestors | today | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ancestor=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:033-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires.lesson:12.
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. 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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