Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, sentence 2

Christopher Columbus had another plan: sail west to reach Asia; he knew the Earth was round, like everyone educated, but he thought it was much smaller than it is, a bit like setting off to walk to the next town and finding a whole country in the way.

Who acts: Christopher, Earth · What happens: have, reach, know, be, think, set off · To what, where: plan, Asia, bit, whole country, way · 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 (Christopher, Earth), 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	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
2	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Christopher	flat
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 plan	det
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 sail	punct
7	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plan	conj
8	west	west	ADV	_	7 sail	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 reach	mark
10	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sail	advcl
11	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 reach	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 knew	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 knew	nsubj
14	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Earth	det
16	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 round	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 round	cop
18	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 knew	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 educated	punct
20	like	like	SCONJ	_	22 educated	mark
21	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 educated	nsubj
22	educated	educated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 knew	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thought	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 thought	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 thought	nsubj
26	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 smaller	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 smaller	cop
29	much	much	ADV	_	30 smaller	advmod
30	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 thought	ccomp
31	than	than	SCONJ	_	33 is	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 is	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 smaller	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 is	punct
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 bit	det
36	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 setting	obl:unmarked
37	like	like	SCONJ	_	38 setting	mark
38	setting	set	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 thought	ccomp
39	off	off	ADP	_	38 setting	compound:prt
40	to	to	PART	_	41 walk	mark
41	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 setting	advcl
42	to	to	ADP	_	45 town	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 town	det
44	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 town	amod
45	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 walk	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 finding	cc
47	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 setting	conj
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 country	det
49	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 country	amod
50	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 finding	obj
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 way	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 way	det
53	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 finding	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Christopher	another plan and sail			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
2	reach	to-infinitive	Christopher not said here	Asia			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent asia=Theme
3	know	past	Christopher				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	the Earth			round property	tree rules
5	think speech: other	past	Christopher				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	is	past	Earth			small property	tree rules
7	set off	gerund		a bit			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	walk	to-infinitive				to the next town result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to town=Result
9	find	gerund		a whole country	the way		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Topic

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:2.

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 ×2. 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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