Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 2
Months later, starving and sick, the crew reached the Philippines, where Magellan was killed fighting the local leader Lapulapu, so Magellan himself never sailed all the way round.
Who acts: crew, Magellan · What happens: starve, reach, kill, fight, not sail · To what, where: Philippines, Magellan, local leader
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 (crew, Magellan), 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 | Months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 later | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 reached | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 starving | punct |
| 4 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 reached | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sick | cc |
| 6 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 starving | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 crew | det |
| 9 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Philippines | det |
| 12 | Philippines | Philippines | PROPN | Number=Ptan | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 killed | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 killed | advmod |
| 15 | Magellan | Magellan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 killed | aux:pass |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Philippines | acl |
| 18 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 killed | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 leader | det |
| 20 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 leader | amod |
| 21 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fighting | obj |
| 22 | Lapulapu | Lapulapu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 leader | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sailed | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 sailed | advmod |
| 25 | Magellan | Magellan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 sailed | nsubj |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 Magellan | nmod |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 sailed | advmod |
| 28 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reached | parataxis |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 way | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 way | det |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 round | obl |
| 32 | round | round | ADV | _ | 28 sailed | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | starve | gerund | the crew not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | the crew | the Philippines | late property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent philippines=Theme | |||
| 3 | kill | past · passive | Magellan | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fight | gerund | the local leader | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Co-Agent | |||||
| 5 | not sail | past | Magellan Magellan | round property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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:2.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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