Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 1

He found a stormy passage at the tip of South America and came out onto an ocean so calm that he named it the Pacific, meaning peaceful, never guessing it was the biggest ocean on Earth.

Who acts: sailor, passage · What happens: find, come out, name, mean, not guess, be · To what, where: stormy passage, tip, ocean, passage, biggest ocean, Earth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sailor, passage), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 passage	det
4	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 passage	amod
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 tip	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tip	det
8	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passage	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 America	case
10	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 America	compound
11	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tip	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	onto	onto	ADP	_	17 ocean	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ocean	det
17	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 calm	advmod
19	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 came	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 named	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 named	nsubj
22	named	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 calm	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 named	obj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Pacific	det
25	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 named	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 meaning	punct
27	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 came	parataxis
28	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 meaning	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 guessing	punct
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 guessing	advmod
31	guessing	guess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 meaning	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 ocean	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 ocean	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ocean	det
35	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 ocean	amod
36	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 guessing	ccomp
37	on	on	ADP	_	38 Earth	case
38	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 ocean	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	sailor	a stormy passage	the tip of South America		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent passage=Theme at tip=Asset
2	come out	past	sailor not said here		a ocean	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	name	past	sailor	passage			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	mean	gerund				peaceful property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	not guess	gerund					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	passage	the biggest ocean	Earth		tree rules

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:1.

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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