Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires, sentence 2

Columbus sailed west for Castile in 1492 hoping to reach Asia; people already knew the Earth was round, but he thought it was much smaller than it is, and he bumped into the Caribbean instead.

Who acts: Columbus, people, Earth · What happens: sail, hope, reach, know, be, think · To what, where: 1492, Asia, Caribbean · Speech: someone speaks here

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, people, Earth), 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	2 sailed	nsubj
2	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	west	west	ADV	_	2 sailed	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 Castile	case
5	Castile	Castile	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sailed	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1492	case
7	1492	1492	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 sailed	obl
8	hoping	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 sailed	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 reach	mark
10	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hoping	xcomp
11	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 reach	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 knew	punct
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 knew	nsubj
14	already	already	ADV	_	15 knew	advmod
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sailed	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Earth	det
17	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 round	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 round	cop
19	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 knew	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 thought	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thought	nsubj
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sailed	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 smaller	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 smaller	cop
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 smaller	advmod
27	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 thought	ccomp
28	than	than	SCONJ	_	30 is	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 is	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 smaller	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bumped	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 bumped	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 bumped	nsubj
34	bumped	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sailed	conj
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 Caribbean	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Caribbean	det
37	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 bumped	obl
38	instead	instead	ADV	_	34 bumped	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sailed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sail	past	Columbus		1492	for Castile; west property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	hope	gerund	Columbus not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
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	know	past	people				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	the Earth			round property	tree rules
6	think speech: other	past	Columbus				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	Earth			small property	tree rules
8	bump	past	Columbus		the Caribbean	instead property	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into caribbean=Location

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:2.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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