--- title: Long before Europeans came, the Indian Ocean was a busy trade world… — The spice trade and the Indian Ocean · tree and pragmatics description: Long before Europeans came, the Indian Ocean was a busy trade world linking East Africa, Arabia, Persia, India, South-East Asia and China. Who acts: Europeans, Ocean, Indian busy trade world. 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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 (Europeans, Ocean, Indian busy trade world), 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:11 # text = Long before Europeans came, the Indian Ocean was a busy trade world linking East Africa, Arabia, Persia, India, South-East Asia and China. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 2 before before SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 Europeans European PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 7 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 8 Ocean Ocean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 linking link VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Arabia Arabia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Persia Persia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 26 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 30 . . 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 | **come** | past | Europeans | | | | | long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | the Ocean | a Indian busy trade world | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **link** | gerund | a Indian busy trade world *not said here* | East and Persia and India and South and East Asia and China | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent east=Patient | 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:029-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean.lesson:11`. **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. 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