--- title: Around the year 1000 Leif Erikson sailed to North America, which the… — The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings · tree and pragmatics description: Around the year 1000 Leif Erikson sailed to North America, which the Norse called Vinland, and a Viking site has been found in Newfoundland, Canada, but the Norse did not stay there for long. Who acts: Leif, Norse. 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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 (Leif, Norse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:020-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings.lesson:16 # text = Around the year 1000 Leif Erikson sailed to North America, which the Norse called Vinland, and a Viking site has been found in Newfoundland, Canada, but the Norse did not stay there for long. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 020-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Around around ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 1000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 flat _ _ 5 Leif Leif PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 Erikson Erikson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 obj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Norse norse NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 Vinland Vinland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 Viking viking NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 site site NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Newfoundland Newfoundland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Norse norse NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 36 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sail** | past | Leif | | | North America | year | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to america=Trajectory | | 2 | **call** | past | the Norse | North America | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient | | 3 | **find** | present · perfect · passive | | a Viking site | | Newfoundland | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 4 | **not** **stay** | past · do-support | the Norse | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:history:020-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings/15/) - next →: [The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings/)