--- title: The Americas are named after the Italian Amerigo Vespucci, who reali… — Explorers: around Africa and Columbus · tree and pragmatics description: The Americas are named after the Italian Amerigo Vespucci, who realised this was a New World and not Asia. Who acts: Italian Amerigo, this. 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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 (Italian Amerigo, this), 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:16 # text = The Americas are named after the Italian Amerigo Vespucci, who realised this was a New World and not Asia. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Americas Americas PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 after after ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Italian Italian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 8 Amerigo Amerigo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 Vespucci Vespucci PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 realised realise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 New New ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 World World PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 ccomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **name** | present · passive | | the Americas | | | after the Italian Amerigo | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **realise** | past | the Italian Amerigo | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | past | this | a New World and Asia | | | | | tree rules | 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: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: [Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/15/) - next →: [Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/)