Colombia, sentence 66

From Wikipedia, «Colombia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

In the 16th century, the nautical science in Spain reached a great development thanks to numerous scientific figures of the Casa de Contratación and nautical science was an essential pillar of the Iberian expansion.

Who acts: nautical science, great development thanks · What happens: reach, be, figure · To what, where: essential pillar, Casa Contratación

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Colombia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nautical science, great development thanks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 century	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 century	det
3	16th	16th	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	4 century	amod
4	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 century	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 science	det
7	nautical	nautical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 science	amod
8	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Spain	case
10	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 science	nmod
11	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thanks	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thanks	amod
14	development	development	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thanks	compound
15	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pillar	nsubj
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 figures	case
17	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 figures	amod
18	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 figures	amod
19	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 thanks	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 Contratación	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Contratación	det
22	Casa	Casa	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Contratación	compound
23	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Casa	flat
24	Contratación	Contratación	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 figures	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 science	cc
26	nautical	nautical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 science	amod
27	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Contratación	conj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 pillar	cop
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pillar	det
30	essential	essential	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 pillar	amod
31	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 expansion	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 expansion	det
34	Iberian	iberian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 expansion	amod
35	expansion	expansion	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pillar	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	the nautical science in Spain		century		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	a great development thanks to numerous scientific figures of the Casa Contratación and nautical science	a essential pillar		of the Iberian expansion	tree rules
3	figure			the Casa Contratación and nautical science			nom figure «communication transitive»: of=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.

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Colombia, sentence 66