Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 3
In 1522 one battered ship, the Victoria, came home with 18 men, and they found their diaries were one day behind, like a lap of a race where you lose a sunrise by running the same way the Sun goes.
Who acts: one battered ship, ships, you, Sun · What happens: batter, come, find, be, lose, run · To what, where: 1522, diaries, same way · 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 (one battered ship, ships, you, Sun), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1522 | case |
| 2 | 1522 | 1522 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 came | obl |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 ship | nummod |
| 4 | battered | batter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ship | amod |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ship | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Victoria | det |
| 8 | Victoria | Victoria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ship | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Victoria | punct |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 13 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 men | nummod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 found | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 diaries | nmod:poss |
| 20 | diaries | diary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 found | obj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 behind | cop |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 day | nummod |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 behind | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 18 found | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lap | punct |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 lap | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 lap | det |
| 28 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | parataxis |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 race | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 race | det |
| 31 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lap | nmod |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 lose | advmod |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 lose | nsubj |
| 34 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 race | acl:relcl |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 sunrise | det |
| 36 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lose | obj |
| 37 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 38 running | mark |
| 38 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 lose | advcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 way | det |
| 40 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 way | amod |
| 41 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 running | obj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Sun | det |
| 43 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 goes | nsubj |
| 44 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 way | acl:relcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | batter | participle | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | come | past | one battered ship | 1522 | with 18 men; home property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1522=Location | |||
| 3 | find | past | ships = ship | ships's diaries | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diary=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | past | day | behind property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lose | present | you | sunrise | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | run | gerund | you not said here | the same way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | go | present | the Sun | the same way not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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:3.
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): 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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