Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires, sentence 17

Spain took the Philippines from 1565, and Manila galleons crossed the Pacific between Acapulco and Manila until 1815, carrying American silver one way and Chinese silk and porcelain the other.

Who acts: Spain, Manila galleons · What happens: take, cross, carry · To what, where: Philippines, 1565, Pacific, American silver

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 (Spain, Manila galleons), 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	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Philippines	det
4	Philippines	Philippines	PROPN	Number=Ptan	2 took	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 1565	case
6	1565	1565	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 took	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 crossed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 crossed	cc
9	Manila	Manila	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 galleons	compound
10	galleons	galleon	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 crossed	nsubj
11	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Pacific	det
13	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 crossed	obj
14	between	between	ADP	_	15 Acapulco	case
15	Acapulco	Acapulco	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 crossed	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Manila	cc
17	Manila	Manila	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Acapulco	conj
18	until	until	ADP	_	19 1815	case
19	1815	1815	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 crossed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 carrying	punct
21	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 crossed	advcl
22	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 silver	amod
23	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carrying	obj
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 way	nummod
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carrying	obl:unmarked
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 silk	cc
27	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 silk	amod
28	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 way	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 porcelain	cc
30	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 silk	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 other	det
32	other	other	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carrying	obl:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Spain	the Philippines	1565			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent philippines=Theme from 1565=Initial_Location
2	cross	past	Manila galleons	the Pacific		until 1815	between Acapulco and Manila	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pacific=Patient
3	carry	gerund	Manila galleons not said here	American silver			one way and Chinese silk and porcelain obl:unmarked; the other obl:unmarked	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=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:17.

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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