--- title: Portugal colonised Brazil from the 1530s, at first for brazilwood, a… — Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires · tree and pragmatics description: Portugal colonised Brazil from the 1530s, at first for brazilwood, a red dye wood that gave the land its name, and then for sugar plantations worked by enslaved Indigenous people and Africans. Who acts: Portugal, red dye wood, land. 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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 (Portugal, red dye wood, land), 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:16 # text = Portugal colonised Brazil from the 1530s, at first for brazilwood, a red dye wood that gave the land its name, and then for sugar plantations worked by enslaved Indigenous people and Africans. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 colonised colonise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 1530s 1530 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 obl _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 brazilwood brazilwood NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 dye dye NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 plantations plantation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 29 worked work VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 enslaved enslave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 32 Indigenous Indigenous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 33 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl:agent _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 Africans African PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **colonise** | past | Portugal | Brazil | | the 1530s | | for brazilwood and sugar plantations | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | past | a red dye wood | land's name | the land | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent land=Recipient name=Theme | | 3 | **work** | participle | | sugar plantations *not said here* | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **enslave** | participle | | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **name** | | land | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:16`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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