Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 15

John Cabot reached Newfoundland in 1497 and Jacques Cartier sailed up the St Lawrence River in the 1530s, both looking for a northern passage to Asia.

Who acts: John, Jacques, both · What happens: reach, sail up, look · To what, where: Newfoundland, 1497, St Lawrence River, 1530s

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 (John, Jacques, both), 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	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reached	nsubj
2	Cabot	Cabot	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 John	flat
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Newfoundland	Newfoundland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1497	case
6	1497	1497	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 reached	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sailed	cc
8	Jacques	Jacques	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sailed	nsubj
9	Cartier	Cartier	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Jacques	flat
10	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reached	conj
11	up	up	PART	_	10 sailed	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 River	det
13	St	St	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 River	compound
14	Lawrence	Lawrence	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 River	compound
15	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sailed	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 1530s	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 1530s	det
18	1530s	1530	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	10 sailed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 looking	punct
20	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	21 looking	nsubj
21	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sailed	advcl
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 passage	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 passage	det
24	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 passage	amod
25	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 looking	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 Asia	case
27	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 passage	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	John	Newfoundland	1497		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent newfoundland=Theme
2	sail up	past	Jacques	the St Lawrence River	the 1530s		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Theme
3	look	gerund	both			for a northern passage to Asia	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for passage=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:15.

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, R7-rel-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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