--- title: Cloves and nutmeg grew only on a few tiny islands in the Moluccas, i… — The spice trade and the Indian Ocean · tree and pragmatics description: Cloves and nutmeg grew only on a few tiny islands in the Moluccas, in today's Indonesia; black pepper came mostly from the Malabar coast of south-west India, around Calicut and Cochin. Who acts: Cloves, black pepper. 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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 (Cloves, black pepper), 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:2 # text = Cloves and nutmeg grew only on a few tiny islands in the Moluccas, in today's Indonesia; black pepper came mostly from the Malabar coast of south-west India, around Calicut and Cochin. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cloves clove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 nutmeg nutmeg NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Moluccas Moluccas PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 Indonesia Indonesia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 pepper pepper NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 23 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 Malabar Malabar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 south south ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 west west ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 around around ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Calicut Calicut PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 Cochin Cochin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | Cloves and nutmeg | | | a few tiny islands in the Moluccas | | in today's Indonesia | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | | 2 | **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 | 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: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: [The spice trade and the Indian Ocean, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/29-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean/1/) - next →: [The spice trade and the Indian Ocean, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/29-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/29-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean/)