--- title: In the 1400s Europeans wanted spices, silk and gold from Asia, but t… — Explorers: around Africa and Columbus · tree and pragmatics description: In the 1400s Europeans wanted spices, silk and gold from Asia, but the land routes were long and controlled by others, so sailors with new ships and the compass tried to get there by sea. Who acts: Europeans, land routes, sailors. 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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 (Europeans, land routes, sailors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:026-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus.lesson:0 # text = In the 1400s Europeans wanted spices, silk and gold from Asia, but the land routes were long and controlled by others, so sailors with new ships and the compass tried to get there by sea. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 026-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 1400s 1400 NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 4 Europeans European PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 5 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 6 spices spice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:appos 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 routes route NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 controlled control VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 compass compass NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:conj 33 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | past | Europeans | spices and silk and gold | | the 1400s | | from Asia | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot spice=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | the land routes | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **control** | participle | the land routes *not said here* | | | | | by others | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **try** | past | sailors with new ships and the compass | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sailors with new ships and the compass *not said here* | | | there | | by sea | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:026-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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