Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, sentence 14
Columbus was a brave, skilful sailor but also a harsh governor who enslaved native people, and many places now also mark Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Who acts: Columbus, harsh governor, many places · What happens: be, enslave, mark · To what, where: brave skilful sailor, native people, Day
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, harsh governor, many places), 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 | 7 sailor | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sailor | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sailor | det |
| 4 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sailor | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brave | punct |
| 6 | skilful | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sailor | amod |
| 7 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 governor | cc |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 governor | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 governor | det |
| 11 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 governor | amod |
| 12 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sailor | conj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 enslaved | nsubj |
| 14 | enslaved | enslave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 governor | acl:relcl |
| 15 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 people | amod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 enslaved | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mark | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 mark | cc |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 places | amod |
| 20 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 mark | nsubj |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | _ | 23 mark | advmod |
| 22 | also | also | ADV | _ | 23 mark | advmod |
| 23 | mark | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sailor | conj |
| 24 | Indigenous | Indigenous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Peoples | compound |
| 25 | Peoples | people | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 Day | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 25 Peoples | case |
| 27 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 mark | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sailor | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Columbus | a brave skilful sailor but a harsh governor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enslave | past | a harsh governor | native people | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 3 | mark | present | many places | Indigenous Peoples's Day | now | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent day=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:history:026-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus.lesson:14.
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, 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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