Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 6
Magellan found a stormy passage at the tip of South America, now called the Strait of Magellan, and entered an ocean he named the Pacific, meaning peaceful.
Who acts: Magellan · What happens: find, call, enter, name, mean · To what, where: stormy passage, tip, ocean, Pacific · 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 (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 | Magellan | Magellan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 passage | det |
| 4 | stormy | stormy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 passage | amod |
| 5 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 tip | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tip | det |
| 8 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 America | case |
| 10 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 America | compound |
| 11 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tip | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 called | advmod |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 passage | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Strait | det |
| 16 | Strait | Strait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Magellan | case |
| 18 | Magellan | Magellan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Strait | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 entered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 entered | cc |
| 21 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 ocean | det |
| 23 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 entered | obj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 named | nsubj |
| 25 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ocean | acl:relcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Pacific | det |
| 27 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 named | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 meaning | punct |
| 29 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 entered | advcl |
| 30 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 meaning | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Magellan | a stormy passage | the tip of South America | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent passage=Theme at tip=Asset | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a stormy passage not said here | now | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | Magellan not said here | a ocean | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ocean=Destination | ||||
| 4 | name | past | Magellan | the Pacific | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pacific=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mean | gerund | Magellan not said here | peaceful property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:6.
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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