Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, sentence 6
Prince Henry of Portugal sent sailors down the coast of Africa in caravels, small handy ships, though he did not sail on these voyages himself.
Who acts: Henry · What happens: send, not sail · To what, where: sailors, caravels, Henry, voyages
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 (Henry), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Henry | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Portugal | case |
| 4 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Henry | nmod |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sent | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 coast | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coast | det |
| 9 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Africa | case |
| 11 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 coast | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 caravels | case |
| 13 | caravels | caravel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sent | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ships | punct |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ships | amod |
| 16 | handy | handy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ships | amod |
| 17 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 caravels | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sail | punct |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 23 sail | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sail | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sail | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 sail | advmod |
| 23 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sent | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 voyages | case |
| 25 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 voyages | det |
| 26 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sail | obl |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 23 sail | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Henry Prince of Portugal | sailors | caravels | down the coast of Africa | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sailor=Theme in caravel=Destination | ||
| 2 | not sail | past · do-support | Henry | Henry | this voyages | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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:6.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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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