Explorers: Cook and the Pacific, sentence 5

Polynesian navigators crossed the Pacific in double canoes, finding their way by the stars, waves and birds, and settled islands from Hawaii to New Zealand.

Who acts: Polynesian navigators · What happens: cross, find, settle · To what, where: Pacific, way, islands, New Zealand, Hawaii

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 (Polynesian 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	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 navigators	amod
2	navigators	navigator	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crossed	nsubj
3	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Pacific	det
5	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 crossed	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 canoes	case
7	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 canoes	amod
8	canoes	canoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crossed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 finding	punct
10	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 crossed	advcl
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod:poss
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 finding	obj
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 stars	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stars	det
15	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 finding	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 waves	punct
17	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stars	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 birds	cc
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stars	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 settled	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 settled	cc
22	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 finding	conj
23	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 settled	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 Hawaii	case
25	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 settled	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 Zealand	case
27	New	New	PROPN	_	28 Zealand	flat
28	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 settled	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cross	past	Polynesian navigators	the Pacific			in double canoes	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent pacific=Patient in canoe=Topic
2	find	gerund	Polynesian navigators not said here	navigators's way			by the stars and waves and birds	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
3	settle	past	Polynesian navigators not said here	islands	New Zealand	Hawaii		vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme island=Location

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:5.

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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