--- title: Columbus sailed west for Castile in 1492 hoping to reach Asia; peopl… — Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires · tree and pragmatics description: Columbus sailed west for Castile in 1492 hoping to reach Asia; people already knew the Earth was round, but he thought it was much smaller than it is, and he bumped into the Caribbean instead. Who acts: Columbus, people, Earth. 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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, people, Earth), 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:2 # text = Columbus sailed west for Castile in 1492 hoping to reach Asia; people already knew the Earth was round, but he thought it was much smaller than it is, and he bumped into the Caribbean instead. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Columbus Columbus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 west west ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Castile Castile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 1492 1492 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 8 hoping hope VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 advcl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 already already ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det 17 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 ccomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 much much ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 ccomp _ _ 28 than than SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:cop 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 bumped bump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 35 into into ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Caribbean Caribbean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 instead instead ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sail** | past | Columbus | | | 1492 | | for Castile; west *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hope** | gerund | Columbus *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 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 | **know** | past | people | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | past | the Earth | | | | | round *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Columbus | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | past | Earth | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **bump** | past | Columbus | | | the Caribbean | | instead *property* | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into caribbean=Location | 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: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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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. 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