Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 7

Crossing the Pacific took months; sailors ate sawdust and leather, and many died of scurvy, an illness caused by a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables.

Who acts: Crossing, sailors, many · What happens: cross, take, eat, die, cause, lack · To what, where: Pacific, sawdust, illness, fresh fruit

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 (Crossing, sailors, many), 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	Crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 took	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Pacific	det
3	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Crossing	obj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 sailors	punct
7	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ate	nsubj
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	parataxis
9	sawdust	sawdust	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 leather	cc
11	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sawdust	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 died	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 died	cc
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 died	nsubj
15	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 scurvy	case
17	scurvy	scurvy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 died	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 illness	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 illness	det
20	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 scurvy	appos
21	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 illness	acl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 lack	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lack	det
24	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 caused	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 fruit	case
26	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fruit	amod
27	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lack	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 vegetables	cc
29	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fruit	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cross	gerund		the Pacific			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pacific=Patient
2	take	past	Crossing		month		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	eat	past	sailors	sawdust and leather			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sawdust=Patient
4	die	past	many			of scurvy	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of scurvy=Causer
5	cause	participle		a illness not said here		by a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
6	lack			fresh fruit and vegetables			nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient

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:7.

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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