Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 0

In 1519 Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese sailor working for Spain, set off west with five ships and about 270 men to reach the Spice Islands of Asia.

Who acts: Portuguese sailor · What happens: work, set off, reach · To what, where: 1519, Ferdinand Magellan, Spice Islands

This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there» 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 (Portuguese sailor), 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	_	4 Magellan	case
2	1519	1519	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 set	obl
3	Ferdinand	Ferdinand	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Magellan	compound
4	Magellan	magellan	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Magellan	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sailor	det
7	Portuguese	Portuguese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sailor	amod
8	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	nsubj
9	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 sailor	acl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 Spain	case
11	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 working	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Spain	punct
13	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 set	compound:prt
15	west	west	ADV	_	13 set	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 ships	case
17	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 ships	nummod
18	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 set	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 men	cc
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 270	advmod
21	270	270	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 men	nummod
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ships	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 reach	mark
24	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 set	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Islands	det
26	Spice	spice	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Islands	compound
27	Islands	Island	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 reach	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Asia	case
29	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Islands	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	work	gerund	a Portuguese sailor not said here			for Spain	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for spain=Beneficiary
2	set off	past	a Portuguese sailor	1519	Ferdinand Magellan	with five ships and 270 men; west property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	reach	to-infinitive	a Portuguese sailor not said here	the Spice Islands of Asia			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent island=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:027-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there.lesson:0.

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.

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