Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, sentence 7
In 1498 Vasco da Gama sailed around the southern tip of Africa and reached India by sea, and Portugal grew rich from the spice trade.
Who acts: Vasco da Gama, Portugal · What happens: sail, reach, grow · To what, where: 1498, India
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 (Vasco da Gama, Portugal), 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 1498 | case |
| 2 | 1498 | 1498 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 sailed | obl |
| 3 | Vasco | Vasco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Gama | compound |
| 4 | da | da | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Gama | compound |
| 5 | Gama | Gama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sailed | nsubj |
| 6 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 10 tip | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tip | det |
| 9 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tip | amod |
| 10 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sailed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Africa | case |
| 12 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tip | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reached | cc |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sailed | conj |
| 15 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 grew | cc |
| 20 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 grew | nsubj |
| 21 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sailed | conj |
| 22 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 grew | xcomp |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 trade | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 trade | det |
| 25 | spice | spice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 trade | compound |
| 26 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rich | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | Vasco da Gama | 1498 | around the southern tip of Africa | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around tip=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | reach | past | Vasco da Gama not said here | India | by sea | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent india=Theme | |||
| 3 | grow | past | Portugal | rich property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:7.
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): no change. 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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