Explorers: Cook and the Pacific, sentence 7
James Cook, a British naval captain, made three great voyages in the 1760s and 1770s, mapping New Zealand, the east coast of Australia and many Pacific islands.
Who acts: James Cook · What happens: make, map · To what, where: three great voyages, 1760s, New Zealand
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 (James Cook), 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 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Cook | compound |
| 2 | Cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 captain | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 captain | det |
| 5 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 captain | amod |
| 6 | naval | naval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 captain | amod |
| 7 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Cook | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 captain | punct |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 voyages | nummod |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 voyages | amod |
| 12 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 1760s | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 1760s | det |
| 15 | 1760s | 1760 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 9 made | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 1770s | cc |
| 17 | 1770s | 1770 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 15 1760s | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mapping | punct |
| 19 | mapping | map | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 made | advcl |
| 20 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Zealand | compound |
| 21 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 mapping | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 coast | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 coast | det |
| 24 | east | east | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 coast | amod |
| 25 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Zealand | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Australia | case |
| 27 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 coast | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 islands | cc |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 islands | amod |
| 30 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 islands | compound |
| 31 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 Australia | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | James Cook | three great voyages | the 1760s and 1770s | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product | |||
| 2 | map | gerund | James Cook not said here | New Zealand | tree rules |
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: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): R5-strong ×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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