Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 14
Saying Europeans discovered a land forgets the people who had lived there for thousands of years.
Who acts: Europeans, Saying, people · What happens: say, discover, forget, live · To what, where: land, people · 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 (Europeans, Saying, people), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 forgets | csubj |
| 2 | Europeans | european | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 discovered | nsubj |
| 3 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Saying | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 land | det |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 discovered | obj |
| 6 | forgets | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 forgets | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lived | aux |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 people | acl:relcl |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 lived | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 thousands | case |
| 14 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lived | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 years | case |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 thousands | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 forgets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | discover | past | Europeans | a land | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic | ||||
| 3 | forget | present | Saying | the people | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | past · perfect | the people | there | for thousands of years | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:14.
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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