--- title: Malacca on the Malay Peninsula grew into one of Asia's greatest port… — The spice trade and the Indian Ocean · tree and pragmatics description: Malacca on the Malay Peninsula grew into one of Asia's greatest ports in the 1400s by controlling the Strait of Malacca, and the Portuguese captured it in 1511. Who acts: Malacca, Portuguese. 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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 (Malacca, Portuguese), 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:12 # text = Malacca on the Malay Peninsula grew into one of Asia's greatest ports in the 1400s by controlling the Strait of Malacca, and the Portuguese captured it in 1511. # 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): no change 1 Malacca Malacca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Malay Malay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Peninsula Peninsula PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 6 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 ports port NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 1400s 1400 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 13 nmod _ _ 17 by by SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 controlling control VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Strait Strait PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Malacca Malacca PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Portuguese portuguese NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 captured capture VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 1511 1511 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | Malacca on the Malay Peninsula | | | | | into one of Asia's greatest ports in the 1400s *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into one=Result | | 2 | **control** | gerund | Malacca on the Malay Peninsula *not said here* | the Strait of Malacca | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strait=Theme | | 3 | **capture** | past | the Portuguese | Strait | | 1511 | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:029-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean.lesson:12`. **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): no change. **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: [The spice trade and the Indian Ocean, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/29-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean/11/) - next →: [The spice trade and the Indian Ocean, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/29-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/29-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean/)