Continents and oceans, sentence 17
Portuguese ships spent decades creeping down Africa's coast before Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1488.
Who acts: Portuguese ships, Bartolomeu · What happens: spend, creep, round · To what, where: coast, Cape, 1488
This is a sentence of the lesson «Continents and oceans» 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 (Portuguese ships, 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 | Portuguese | Portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ships | amod |
| 2 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spent | nsubj |
| 3 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spent | obj |
| 5 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 spent | advcl |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 coast | case |
| 7 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 coast | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Africa | case |
| 9 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 creeping | obl |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 rounded | mark |
| 11 | Bartolomeu | Bartolomeu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 rounded | nsubj |
| 12 | Dias | Dias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Bartolomeu | flat |
| 13 | rounded | round | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 creeping | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Cape | det |
| 15 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 rounded | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Hope | case |
| 17 | Good | Good | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Hope | flat |
| 18 | Hope | Hope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Cape | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 1488 | case |
| 20 | 1488 | 1488 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 rounded | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | Portuguese ships | decade | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | creep | gerund | Portuguese ships not said here | Africa's coast | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down coast=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | round | past | Bartolomeu | the Cape of Good Hope | 1488 | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cape=Patient |
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:005-continents-and-oceans.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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