Gemstones and precious metals, sentence 17
The Spanish forced Indigenous people to mine the silver mountain of Potosí in Bolivia, and many thousands died there.
Who acts: Spanish, Indigenous people, many thousands · What happens: force, mine, die · To what, where: Indigenous people, silver mountain, Bolivia
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gemstones and precious metals» 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 (Spanish, Indigenous people, many thousands), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Spanish | det |
| 2 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 forced | nsubj |
| 3 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Indigenous | Indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 forced | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 mine | mark |
| 7 | mine | mine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 forced | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mountain | det |
| 9 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mountain | amod |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mine | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Potosí | case |
| 12 | Potosí | Potosí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mountain | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Bolivia | case |
| 14 | Bolivia | Bolivia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mine | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 died | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 died | cc |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thousands | amod |
| 18 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 died | nsubj |
| 19 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forced | conj |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 died | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past | the Spanish | Indigenous people | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mine | to-infinitive | Indigenous people not said here | the silver mountain of Potosí | Bolivia | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme in bolivia=Location | |||
| 3 | die | past | many thousands | there | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:051-gemstones-and-precious-metals.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. 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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