--- title: To sail safely to the spice markets of the East, Venice held a chain… — Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean · tree and pragmatics description: To sail safely to the spice markets of the East, Venice held a chain of harbours down the Adriatic and in Greece, like a row of petrol stations along a long motorway. Who acts: Venice. 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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 (Venice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:032-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean.lesson:1 # text = To sail safely to the spice markets of the East, Venice held a chain of harbours down the Adriatic and in Greece, like a row of petrol stations along a long motorway. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 032-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean.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 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 sail sail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 3 safely safely ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 spice spice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 markets market NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 12 Venice Venice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 harbours harbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 down down ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Adriatic Adriatic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Greece Greece PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 petrol petrol NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 stations station NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 along along ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 motorway motorway NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sail** | to-infinitive | Venice *not said here* | | | the spice markets of the East | | safely *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to market=Trajectory | | 2 | **hold** | past | Venice | a chain of harbours down the Adriatic | | | | like a row of petrol stations along a long motorway | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Theme | | 3 | **market** | | | the East | | | | | nom market «act transitive»: of=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:032-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean.lesson:1`. **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. 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