Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, sentence 13

The first people Columbus met were the Taíno, who farmed, fished and made hammocks and canoes; within a few decades most of them had died from disease, forced labour and violence.

Who acts: Columbus, first people, Taíno, most · What happens: meet, be, farm, fish, make, die · To what, where: first people, Taíno, hammocks, disease

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, first people, Taíno, most), 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	3 people	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Taíno	nsubj
4	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 met	nsubj
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 people	acl:relcl
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Taíno	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Taíno	det
8	Taíno	Taíno	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 farmed	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 farmed	nsubj
11	farmed	farm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Taíno	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fished	punct
13	fished	fish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 farmed	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 farmed	conj
16	hammocks	hammock	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 made	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 canoes	cc
18	canoes	canoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hammocks	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 died	punct
20	within	within	ADP	_	23 decades	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 decades	det
22	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 decades	amod
23	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 died	obl
24	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 died	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 most	nmod
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 died	aux
28	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 farmed	conj
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 disease	case
30	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 died	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 labour	punct
32	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 labour	amod
33	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 disease	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 violence	cc
35	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 labour	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Taíno	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	meet	past	Columbus	the first people not said here			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent
2	is a	past	the first people	the Taíno			tree rules
3	farm	past	the Taíno				vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fish	past	the Taíno not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make	past	the Taíno not said here	hammocks and canoes			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hammock=Product
6	die	past · perfect	most of people		disease and forced labour and violence	decade	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from disease=Causer
7	force	participle					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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:history:026-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus.lesson:13.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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