Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires, sentence 9
Bartolomeu Dias sailed round the southern tip of Africa in 1488, and Vasco da Gama reached India by sea in 1498.
Who acts: Bartolomeu · What happens: sail, reach · To what, where: 1488, India, 1498
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 (Bartolomeu), 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 | Bartolomeu | Bartolomeu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sailed | nsubj |
| 2 | Dias | Dias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bartolomeu | flat |
| 3 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 tip | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tip | det |
| 6 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tip | amod |
| 7 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sailed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Africa | case |
| 9 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tip | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 1488 | case |
| 11 | 1488 | 1488 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 sailed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reached | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 reached | cc |
| 14 | Vasco | Vasco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Gama | compound |
| 15 | da | da | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Gama | compound |
| 16 | Gama | gama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sailed | nsubj |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sailed | conj |
| 18 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 1498 | case |
| 22 | 1498 | 1498 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 reached | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | Bartolomeu | 1488 | round the southern tip of Africa | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round tip=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | reach | past | Bartolomeu not said here | India | 1498 | by sea | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent india=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:9.
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): R6-punct-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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