Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, sentence 17

In 1494 Spain and Portugal agreed a line on the map, the Treaty of Tordesillas, splitting new lands between them without asking the people who lived there, which is why Brazil speaks Portuguese.

Who acts: Spain, people · What happens: agree, split, ask, live, be · To what, where: line, 1494, new lands, people

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 (Spain, people), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1494	case
2	1494	1494	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 agreed	obl
3	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 agreed	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Portugal	cc
5	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Spain	conj
6	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 line	det
8	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 agreed	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 map	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 map	det
11	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 line	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Treaty	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Treaty	det
14	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 map	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Tordesillas	case
16	Tordesillas	Tordesillas	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Treaty	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 splitting	punct
18	splitting	split	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 agreed	advcl
19	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lands	amod
20	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 splitting	obj
21	between	between	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lands	nmod
23	without	without	SCONJ	_	24 asking	mark
24	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 splitting	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 people	det
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 asking	obj
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 lived	nsubj
28	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 people	acl:relcl
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 lived	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 speaks	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 speaks	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 speaks	cop
33	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	35 speaks	advmod
34	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 speaks	nsubj
35	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 people	conj
36	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 speaks	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	Spain and Portugal	a line		1494	on the map	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent line=Topic
2	split	gerund	Spain and Portugal not said here	new lands			between lands = land	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	Spain and Portugal not said here		the people			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
4	live	past	the people			there		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	the people				speak property	tree rules

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: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, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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