--- title: The Taíno, the people Columbus met in the Caribbean, were nearly wip… — Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires · tree and pragmatics description: The Taíno, the people Columbus met in the Caribbean, were nearly wiped out within a few decades by forced labour, violence and new diseases, though many Caribbean people today have Taíno ancestors. Who acts: Columbus, forced labour, many Caribbean people. 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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 (Columbus, forced labour, many Caribbean people), 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:12 # text = The Taíno, the people Columbus met in the Caribbean, were nearly wiped out within a few decades by forced labour, violence and new diseases, though many Caribbean people today have Taíno ancestors. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Taíno Taíno PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 appos _ _ 6 Columbus Columbus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Caribbean Caribbean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 13 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 wiped wipe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 within within ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 decades decade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 labour labour NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 violence violence NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 diseases disease NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 though though SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 30 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:amod 31 Caribbean caribbean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 35 Taíno Taíno PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 ancestors ancestor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | past | Columbus | the people *not said here* | | the Caribbean | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent | | 2 | **wipe out** | past · passive | forced labour and violence and new diseases | the Taíno | | | decade | nearly *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Source | | 3 | **force** | participle | | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | present | many Caribbean people | Taíno ancestors | | | today | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ancestor=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:033-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires.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): R5-strong ×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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