--- title: Black pepper came mostly from the Malabar coast of south-west India,… — The spice trade and the Indian Ocean · tree and pragmatics description: Black pepper came mostly from the Malabar coast of south-west India, around Calicut and Cochin, and Vasco da Gama reached Calicut in 1498. Who acts: Black pepper, Vasco da Gama. 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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 (Black pepper, Vasco da Gama), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:029-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean.lesson:10 # text = Black pepper came mostly from the Malabar coast of south-west India, around Calicut and Cochin, and Vasco da Gama reached Calicut in 1498. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 029-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 pepper pepper NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Malabar Malabar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 south south ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 west west ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 around around ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Calicut Calicut PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Cochin Cochin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 Vasco Vasco PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 da da PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Gama Gama PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 Calicut Calicut PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 1498 1498 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Black pepper | | | the Malabar coast of west India | | around Calicut and Cochin; mostly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from coast=Initial\_Location around calicut=Destination | | 2 | **reach** | past | Vasco da Gama | Calicut | | 1498 | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent calicut=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. 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