--- title: In 1494, in the Treaty of Tordesillas, Spain and Portugal drew a lin… — Latin America and the Caribbean · tree and pragmatics description: In 1494, in the Treaty of Tordesillas, Spain and Portugal drew a line 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, and the eastern bulge of South America fell on Portugal's side. Who acts: Spain, eastern bulge. 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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, eastern bulge), 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:2 # text = In 1494, in the Treaty of Tordesillas, Spain and Portugal drew a line 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, and the eastern bulge of South America fell on Portugal's side. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1494 1494 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Treaty Treaty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Tordesillas Tordesillas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:appos 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 370 370 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 leagues league NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod:unmarked _ _ 18 west west ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 Cape Cape PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 Verde Verde PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 eastern eastern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 bulge bulge NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | past | Spain and Portugal | a line 370 leagues of the Cape Verde islands | | 1494 | | in the Treaty of Tordesillas | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent line=Theme in 1494=Destination | | 2 | **fall** | past | the eastern bulge of South America | | | Portugal's side | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on side=Location | 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: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 ×1, R7-rel-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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/1/) - next →: [Latin America and the Caribbean, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/)