Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires, sentence 7

Portugal's Prince Henry, called "the Navigator", sponsored voyages down the west coast of Africa from the 1410s, though he did not sail on the long voyages himself.

Who acts: Henry · What happens: call, sponsor, not sail · To what, where: Henry, voyages, 1410s, long voyages · 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 (Henry), 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	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Henry	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Portugal	case
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Henry	nmod:desc
4	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sponsored	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Henry	punct
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Henry	acl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Navigator	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Navigator	det
9	Navigator	Navigator	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Navigator	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sponsored	punct
12	sponsored	sponsor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	voyages	voyage	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sponsored	obj
14	down	down	ADP	_	17 coast	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 coast	det
16	west	west	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 coast	amod
17	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 voyages	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Africa	case
19	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 coast	nmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 1410s	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 1410s	det
22	1410s	1410	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	12 sponsored	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sail	punct
24	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 sail	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sail	nsubj
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sail	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 sail	advmod
28	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sponsored	advcl
29	on	on	ADP	_	32 voyages	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 voyages	det
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 voyages	amod
32	voyages	voyage	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sail	obl
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 sail	obl:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sponsored	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	participle		Portugal's Henry Prince not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sponsor	past	Portugal's Henry Prince	voyages	the 1410s	down the west coast of Africa	vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Beneficiary
3	not sail	past · do-support	Henry	Henry	the long voyages		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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:7.

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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