Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses, sentence 15

Polynesian navigators sailed double canoes across the Pacific, reading stars, waves, winds and birds, and reached Aotearoa New Zealand about 700 to 800 years ago.

Who acts: Polynesian navigators · What happens: sail, read, reach · To what, where: double canoes, Pacific, stars, Aotearoa New Zealand

This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses» 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 sailed	nsubj
3	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 canoes	amod
5	canoes	canoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sailed	obj
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 Pacific	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Pacific	det
8	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sailed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reading	punct
10	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sailed	advcl
11	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 reading	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 waves	punct
13	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stars	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 winds	punct
15	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stars	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 birds	cc
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stars	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 reached	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 reached	cc
20	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sailed	conj
21	Aotearoa	Aotearoa	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Zealand	compound
22	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Zealand	flat
23	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 reached	obj
24	about	about	ADV	_	25 700	advmod
25	700	700	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 years	nummod
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 800	case
27	800	800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 years	nummod
28	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ago	obl:unmarked
29	ago	ago	ADV	_	20 reached	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sailed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sail	past	Polynesian navigators	double canoes	the Pacific		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme canoe=Trajectory
2	read	gerund	Polynesian navigators not said here	stars and waves and winds and birds			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Topic
3	reach	past	Polynesian navigators not said here	Aotearoa New Zealand		ago property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent zealand=Theme

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:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.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): R5-strong ×4, 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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