Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 13

Spanish soldiers called conquistadors conquered huge lands in the Americas looking for gold, and native peoples lost their land and freedom.

Who acts: Spanish soldiers, Americas, native peoples · What happens: call, conquer, look, lose · To what, where: conquistadors, huge lands, Americas, land · 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 (Spanish soldiers, Americas, native peoples), 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	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 soldiers	amod
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 conquered	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 soldiers	acl
4	conquistadors	conquistador	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	xcomp
5	conquered	conquer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lands	amod
7	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 conquered	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 Americas	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Americas	det
10	Americas	Americas	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 lands	nmod
11	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 Americas	acl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 gold	case
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looking	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lost	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lost	cc
16	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 peoples	amod
17	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lost	nsubj
18	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 conquered	conj
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 land	nmod:poss
20	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lost	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 freedom	cc
22	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 land	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 conquered	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	participle	Spanish soldiers not said here	conquistadors			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	conquer	past	Spanish soldiers	huge lands	the Americas		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient
3	look	gerund	the Americas not said here			for gold	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for gold=Theme
4	lose	past	native peoples	people's land and freedom			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Eventuality

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:13.

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, R6-punct-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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