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Explorers and how the world was mapped, sentence 5

In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed west from Spain hoping to reach Asia, but he landed in the Caribbean, in lands Europeans did not know.

Who acts: Christopher, Europeans · What happens: sail, hope, reach, land, not know · To what, where: 1492, Asia, Caribbean, lands

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 (Christopher, Europeans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

caseoblnsubjflatadvmodcaseobladvclmarkxcompobjpunctccnsubjconjcasedetoblpunctcaseoblnsubjauxadvmodconjpunctrootInADP1492NUMChristopherPROPNColumbusPROPNsailedVERBwestADVfromADPSpainPROPNhopingVERBtoPARTreachVERBAsiaPROPN,PUNCTbutCCONJhePRONlandedVERBinADPtheDETCaribbeanPROPN,PUNCTinADPlandsNOUNEuropeansPROPNdidAUXnotPARTknowVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_2 1492case
214921492NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card5 sailedobl
3ChristopherChristopherPROPNNumber=Sing5 sailednsubj
4ColumbusColumbusPROPNNumber=Sing3 Christopherflat
5sailedsailVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6westwestADV_5 sailedadvmod
7fromfromADP_8 Spaincase
8SpainSpainPROPNNumber=Sing5 sailedobl
9hopinghopeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 sailedadvcl
10totoPART_11 reachmark
11reachreachVERBVerbForm=Inf9 hopingxcomp
12AsiaAsiaPROPNNumber=Sing11 reachobj
13,,PUNCT_16 landedpunct
14butbutCCONJ_16 landedcc
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 landednsubj
16landedlandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 sailedconj
17ininADP_19 Caribbeancase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 Caribbeandet
19CaribbeanCaribbeanPROPNNumber=Sing16 landedobl
20,,PUNCT_26 knowpunct
21ininADP_22 landscase
22landslandNOUNNumber=Plur26 knowobl
23EuropeansEuropeanPROPNNumber=Plur26 knownsubj
24diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 knowaux
25notnotPARTPolarity=Neg26 knowadvmod
26knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf5 sailedconj
27..PUNCT_5 sailedpunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1sailpastChristopher1492from Spain; west propertyvn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from spain=Trajectory
2hopegerundChristopher not said herevn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3reach not said to happento-infinitiveChristopher not said hereAsiavn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent asia=Theme
4landpastChristopherthe Caribbeanvn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in caribbean=Destination
5not knowpast · do-supportEuropeanslandsvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:5.

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): R8-pos-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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