Explorers and how the world was mapped, sentence 16
In 1492 Columbus sailed west hoping to reach Asia but reached islands in the Caribbean.
Who acts: Columbus · What happens: sail, hope, reach · To what, where: 1492, Asia, islands, Caribbean
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 (Columbus), 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 | _ | 2 1492 | case |
| 2 | 1492 | 1492 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 sailed | obl |
| 3 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sailed | nsubj |
| 4 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | west | west | ADV | _ | 4 sailed | advmod |
| 6 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sailed | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 reach | mark |
| 8 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hoping | xcomp |
| 9 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 reach | obj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 reached | cc |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sailed | conj |
| 12 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 reached | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Caribbean | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Caribbean | det |
| 15 | Caribbean | Caribbean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 islands | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | Columbus | 1492 | west property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | hope | gerund | Columbus not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reach not said to happen | to-infinitive | Columbus not said here | Asia | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent asia=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | Columbus not said here | islands | the Caribbean | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent island=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:world:098-explorers-mapping-the-world.lesson:16.
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 ×2. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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