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title: Columbus, an Italian sailing for Castile, reached the Caribbean in 1… — Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires · tree and pragmatics
description: Columbus, an Italian sailing for Castile, reached the Caribbean in 1492 while trying to reach Asia by sailing west. Who acts: Columbus. A sentence of the lesson «Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires, sentence 10

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Columbus, an Italian sailing for Castile, reached the Caribbean in 1492 while trying to reach Asia by sailing west.

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**Who acts:** Columbus · **What happens:** reach, try, sail · **To what, where:** Caribbean, 1492, Asia

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Columbus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:033-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires.lesson:10
# text = Columbus, an Italian sailing for Castile, reached the Caribbean in 1492 while trying to reach Asia by sailing west.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 033-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires.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	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sailing	sailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Castile	Castile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1492	1492	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	west	west	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | Columbus | the Caribbean |  | 1492 |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent caribbean=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | gerund | Columbus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **reach** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Columbus *not said here* | Asia |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent asia=Theme |
| 4 | **sail** | gerund | Columbus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | west *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:033-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires.lesson:10`.

**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/).

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