Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, sentence 12
Columbus thought he was near Asia, in the lands then called the Indies, so he called the people he met Indians.
Who acts: Columbus, lands · What happens: think, be, call, meet · To what, where: Asia, Indies, people, Indians · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers: around Africa and Columbus» of the history 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 (Columbus, lands), 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 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Asia | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Asia | cop |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 Asia | case |
| 6 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lands | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 lands | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lands | det |
| 10 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Asia | obl |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 called | advmod |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 lands | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Indies | det |
| 14 | Indies | indy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 called | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 called | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 called | nsubj |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 people | det |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 called | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 met | nsubj |
| 22 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 people | acl:relcl |
| 23 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 met | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Columbus | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Columbus | Asia | in the lands | tree rules | |||
| 3 | call | participle | the lands not said here | the Indies | then | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent indy=Recipient | |||
| 4 | call | past | Columbus | the people | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | meet | past | Columbus | Indians | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indian=Co-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:history:026-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus.lesson:12.
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): 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.
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