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title: Portugal's Prince Henry, called "the Navigator", sponsored voyages d… — Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires · tree and pragmatics
description: Portugal's Prince Henry, called "the Navigator", sponsored voyages down the west coast of Africa from the 1410s, though he did not sail on the long voyages himself. Who acts: Henry. A sentence of the lesson «Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires» of the geography course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires, sentence 7

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Portugal's Prince Henry, called "the Navigator", sponsored voyages down the west coast of Africa from the 1410s, though he did not sail on the long voyages himself.

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**Who acts:** Henry · **What happens:** call, sponsor, not sail · **To what, where:** Henry, voyages, 1410s, long voyages · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Henry), 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:7
# text = Portugal's Prince Henry, called "the Navigator", sponsored voyages down the west coast of Africa from the 1410s, though he did not sail on the long voyages himself.
# 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	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Navigator	Navigator	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sponsored	sponsor	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	voyages	voyage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj
14	down	down	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	west	west	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	1410s	1410	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	voyages	voyage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | Portugal's Henry  Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sponsor** | past | Portugal's Henry  Prince | voyages |  | the 1410s |  | down the west coast of Africa | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **not** **sail** | past · do-support | Henry | Henry |  | the long voyages |  |  | 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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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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