--- title: Columbus was a brave, skilful sailor but also a harsh governor who e… — Explorers: around Africa and Columbus · tree and pragmatics description: Columbus was a brave, skilful sailor but also a harsh governor who enslaved native people, and many places now also mark Indigenous Peoples' Day. Who acts: Columbus, harsh governor, many places. 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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, harsh governor, many places), 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:14 # text = Columbus was a brave, skilful sailor but also a harsh governor who enslaved native people, and many places now also mark Indigenous Peoples' Day. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Columbus Columbus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 skilful skilful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 sailor sailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 also also ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 harsh harsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 governor governor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 enslaved enslave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 21 now now ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 also also ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 mark mark VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 24 Indigenous Indigenous PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 Peoples people PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 27 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 26 ' 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 28 . . 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 | **is a** | past | Columbus | a brave skilful sailor but a harsh governor | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **enslave** | past | a harsh governor | native people | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 3 | **mark** | present | many places | Indigenous Peoples's Day | | | now | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent day=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:026-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus.lesson:14`. **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): 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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