Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires, sentence 16

Portugal colonised Brazil from the 1530s, at first for brazilwood, a red dye wood that gave the land its name, and then for sugar plantations worked by enslaved Indigenous people and Africans.

Who acts: Portugal, red dye wood, land · What happens: colonise, give, work, enslave, name · To what, where: Brazil, 1530s, name, land, sugar plantations

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, red dye wood, land), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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