Seychelles, sentence 20
From Wikipedia, «Seychelles», 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.
Vasco da Gama and his 4th Portuguese India Armada discovered the Seychelles on 15 March 1503; the first sighting was made by Thomé Lopes aboard Rui Mendes de Brito.
Who acts: Vasco da Gama, Thomé Lopes · What happens: discover, make · To what, where: Seychelles, 15, first sighting
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Seychelles». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasco da Gama, Thomé Lopes), 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 | Vasco | Vasco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gama | compound |
| 2 | da | Da | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gama | compound |
| 3 | Gama | Gama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 discovered | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Armada | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Armada | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 4th | 4th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 9 Armada | amod |
| 7 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Armada | amod |
| 8 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Armada | compound |
| 9 | Armada | Armada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gama | conj |
| 10 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Seychelles | det |
| 12 | Seychelles | Seychelles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 discovered | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 15 | case |
| 14 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 discovered | obl |
| 15 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 15 | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | 1503 | 1503 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 15 | flat |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sighting | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 sighting | amod |
| 20 | sighting | sighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 made | aux:pass |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 discovered | parataxis |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 Lopes | case |
| 24 | Thomé | Thomé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Lopes | compound |
| 25 | Lopes | lope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 made | obl |
| 26 | aboard | aboard | ADP | _ | 28 Mendes | case |
| 27 | Rui | Rui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Mendes | compound |
| 28 | Mendes | Mende | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 Lopes | nmod |
| 29 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Mendes | compound |
| 30 | Brito | Brito | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 de | flat |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | Vasco da Gama and most's 4th Portuguese India Armada | the Seychelles | 15 March | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seychelles=Topic | |||
| 2 | make | past · passive | Thomé Lopes aboard Rui Mendes | the first sighting | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
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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