Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 12

When the Victoria returned, the crew's diaries were one day behind the calendar, because sailing west around the world they had seen one sunrise fewer.

Who acts: Victoria, diaries · What happens: return, be, sail, see · To what, where: one day, calendar, world

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 (Victoria, diaries), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 returned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Victoria	det
3	Victoria	Victoria	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 returned	nsubj
4	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 day	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 day	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crew	det
7	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 diaries	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 crew	case
9	diaries	diary	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 day	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 day	cop
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 day	nummod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 calendar	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 calendar	det
15	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seen	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 seen	mark
18	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 seen	advcl
19	west	west	ADV	_	18 sailing	advmod
20	around	around	ADP	_	22 world	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 world	det
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sailing	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 seen	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 seen	aux
25	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 day	advcl
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 sunrise	nummod
27	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seen	obj
28	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 sunrise	amod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 day	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	the Victoria					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the crew's diaries	one day	the calendar			tree rules
3	sail	gerund	diaries = diary not said here		the world		west property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around world=Trajectory
4	see	past · perfect	diaries = diary			sunrise		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:12.

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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