Explorers and how the world was mapped, sentence 2
Explorers travelled into the unknown and brought back descriptions, so mapmakers could fill in the gaps bit by bit.
Who acts: Explorers, mapmakers · What happens: travel, bring back, fill in · To what, where: unknown, descriptions, gaps bit
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 (Explorers, mapmakers), 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 | Explorers | explorer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 travelled | nsubj |
| 2 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 unknown | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 unknown | det |
| 5 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 travelled | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 brought | cc |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 travelled | conj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 brought | advmod |
| 9 | descriptions | description | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brought | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fill | punct |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 14 fill | mark |
| 12 | mapmakers | mapmaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fill | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fill | aux |
| 14 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 brought | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 fill | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gaps | det |
| 17 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bit | compound |
| 18 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fill | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 bit | case |
| 20 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fill | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | Explorers | the unknown | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into unknown=Destination | ||||
| 2 | bring back | past | Explorers not said here | descriptions | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent description=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fill in | could | mapmakers | gaps bit | by bit | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:2.
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.
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