Explorers and how the world was mapped, sentence 15
In the early 1400s Chinese fleets led by Zheng He sailed as far as East Africa.
Who acts: Chinese fleets · What happens: lead, sail · To what, where: Chinese fleets, early 1400s
This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers and how the world was mapped» of the world 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 (Chinese fleets), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 1400s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 1400s | det |
| 3 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 1400s | amod |
| 4 | 1400s | 1400 | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sailed | obl |
| 5 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fleets | amod |
| 6 | fleets | fleet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sailed | nsubj |
| 7 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fleets | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Zheng | case |
| 9 | Zheng | Zheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 led | obl:agent |
| 10 | He | he | PROPN | _ | 9 Zheng | flat |
| 11 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 far | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 sailed | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Africa | case |
| 15 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Africa | compound |
| 16 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 far | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | participle | Chinese fleets not said here | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 2 | sail | past | Chinese fleets | the early 1400s | far property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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:world:098-explorers-mapping-the-world.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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