--- title: In 1494 Spain and Portugal agreed in the Treaty of Tordesillas to di… — Latin America and the Caribbean · tree and pragmatics description: In 1494 Spain and Portugal agreed in the Treaty of Tordesillas to divide newly found lands along a line 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, which gave Portugal the eastern bulge of South America. Who acts: Spain, 370 leagues. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spain, 370 leagues), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson:10 # text = In 1494 Spain and Portugal agreed in the Treaty of Tordesillas to divide newly found lands along a line 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, which gave Portugal the eastern bulge of South America. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson # annotation = 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1494 1494 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 3 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Treaty Treaty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Tordesillas Tordesillas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 divide divide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 14 newly newly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 along along ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 370 370 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 leagues league NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 22 west west ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 Cape Cape PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 Verde Verde PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 31 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 iobj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 eastern eastern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 bulge bulge NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | Spain and Portugal | | | 1494 | | in the Treaty of Tordesillas | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **divide** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Spain and Portugal *not said here* | found lands | | | | along a line; 370 leagues *obl* | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | | 3 | **find** | participle | | | | | | newly *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give** | past | 370 leagues | the eastern bulge of South America | Portugal | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent portugal=Recipient bulge=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:geography:014-latin-america-and-the-caribbean.lesson:10`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Latin America and the Caribbean, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/9/) - next →: [Latin America and the Caribbean, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/)