--- title: Portugal seized the port of Malacca in 1511 to control the busy sea… — Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz an… · tree and pragmatics description: Portugal seized the port of Malacca in 1511 to control the busy sea road of the spice trade there, and the Dutch took it in 1641. Who acts: Portugal, Dutch. A sentence of the lesson «Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors» of the geography course of Mova's primary s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/) / 12 # Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors, sentence 12 Portugal seized the port of Malacca in 1511 to control the busy sea road of the spice trade there, and the Dutch took it in 1641. **Who acts:** Portugal, Dutch · **What happens:** seize, control, take · **To what, where:** port, 1511, busy sea road, road, 1641 This is a sentence of the lesson «Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors» of the geography 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 (Portugal, Dutch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:019-straits-the-narrow-doors.lesson:12 # text = Portugal seized the port of Malacca in 1511 to control the busy sea road of the spice trade there, and the Dutch took it in 1641. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 019-straits-the-narrow-doors.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 port port NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Malacca Malacca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 1511 1511 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 control control VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 spice spice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Dutch dutch NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 1641 1641 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **seize** | past | Portugal | the port of Malacca | | 1511 | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent port=Theme | | 2 | **control** | to-infinitive | Portugal *not said here* | the busy sea road of the spice trade | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | | 3 | **take** | past | the Dutch | road | | 1641 | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in 1641=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. 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