Explorers: Cook and the Pacific, sentence 15
Explorers were brave and skilled, but their voyages also opened the way for colonies that took land from local peoples.
Who acts: Explorers, voyages, colonies, navigators · What happens: be, open, take, voyage · To what, where: way, land
This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Cook and the Pacific» 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 (Explorers, voyages, colonies, navigators), 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 | Explorers | explorer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brave | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brave | cop |
| 3 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 skilled | cc |
| 5 | skilled | skilled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brave | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 opened | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 opened | cc |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 voyages | nmod:poss |
| 9 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 opened | nsubj |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 opened | advmod |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brave | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opened | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 colonies | case |
| 15 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 way | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 colonies | acl:relcl |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 peoples | case |
| 20 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 peoples | amod |
| 21 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 took | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Explorers | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Explorers not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | open | past | navigators's voyages | the way | for colonies | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||
| 4 | take | past | colonies | land | from local peoples | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent land=Theme from people=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | voyage | navigators = navigator | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=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:028-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific.lesson:15.
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): no change. 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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