Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires, sentence 3
In Europa Universalis 5 this is a fun race of explorers, colonists and gold, but for the Taíno, the Aztecs and the Inca it meant conquest, forced labour and deadly new diseases.
Who acts: this, Inca · What happens: be, mean, force · To what, where: fun race, Europa, conquest
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 (this, Inca), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Europa | case |
| 2 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 race | obl |
| 3 | Universalis | Universalis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Europa | flat |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Europa | flat |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 race | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 race | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 race | det |
| 8 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 race | amod |
| 9 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 explorers | case |
| 11 | explorers | explorer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 race | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 colonists | punct |
| 13 | colonists | colonist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 explorers | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gold | cc |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 explorers | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 meant | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 meant | cc |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 Taíno | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Taíno | det |
| 20 | Taíno | Taíno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 meant | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Aztecs | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Aztecs | det |
| 23 | Aztecs | Aztec | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 Taíno | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Inca | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Inca | det |
| 26 | Inca | Inca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Aztecs | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 meant | nsubj |
| 28 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 race | conj |
| 29 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 meant | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 labour | punct |
| 31 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 labour | amod |
| 32 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 conquest | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 diseases | cc |
| 34 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 diseases | amod |
| 35 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 diseases | amod |
| 36 | diseases | disease | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 conquest | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 race | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | a fun race | Europa | of explorers and colonists and gold | tree rules | ||
| 2 | mean | past | Inca | conquest and forced labour and deadly new diseases | for the Taíno and the Aztecs and the Inca | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot conquest=Theme for taíno=Attribute | |||
| 3 | force | participle | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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:3.
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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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