Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, sentence 8
From 1405 to 1433 the Chinese admiral Zheng He led huge fleets across the Indian Ocean as far as East Africa.
Who acts: Zheng · What happens: lead · To what, where: huge fleets, 1405
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 (Zheng), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 1405 | case |
| 2 | 1405 | 1405 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 led | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 1433 | case |
| 4 | 1433 | 1433 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1405 | nmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 admiral | det |
| 6 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 admiral | amod |
| 7 | admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Zheng | appos |
| 8 | Zheng | Zheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 led | nsubj |
| 9 | He | He | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Zheng | flat |
| 10 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fleets | amod |
| 12 | fleets | fleet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 led | obj |
| 13 | across | across | ADP | _ | 16 Ocean | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Ocean | det |
| 15 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Ocean | amod |
| 16 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 led | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 far | advmod |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 led | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 Africa | case |
| 20 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Africa | compound |
| 21 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 far | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 led | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | Zheng | huge fleets | 1405 to 1433 | across the Indian Ocean; far property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fleet=Theme from 1405=Destination |
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:8.
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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