Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 17

Old maps had sea monsters and blank spaces where mapmakers did not know what was there, and within about a hundred years European maps showed fairly accurate coastlines.

Who acts: Old maps, mapmakers, European maps · What happens: have, not know, be, show · To what, where: sea monsters, accurate coastlines · 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 (Old maps, mapmakers, European maps), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 maps	amod
2	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 monsters	compound
5	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spaces	cc
7	blank	blank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spaces	amod
8	spaces	space	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 monsters	conj
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 know	advmod
10	mapmakers	mapmaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 know	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 know	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 know	advmod
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 spaces	acl:relcl
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 there	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 there	cop
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 know	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 showed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 showed	cc
19	within	within	ADP	_	23 years	case
20	about	about	ADV	_	22 hundred	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hundred	det
22	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 years	nummod
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 showed	obl
24	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 maps	amod
25	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 showed	nsubj
26	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
27	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	28 accurate	advmod
28	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 coastlines	amod
29	coastlines	coastline	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 showed	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Old maps	sea monsters and blank spaces			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Patient
2	not know	past · do-support	mapmakers				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past				there property	tree rules
4	show	past	European maps	accurate coastlines	year		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent coastline=Recipient

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:17.

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 ×3, 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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