--- title: In 1494 Spain and Portugal agreed a line on the map, the Treaty of T… — Explorers: around Africa and Columbus · tree and pragmatics description: In 1494 Spain and Portugal agreed a line on the map, the Treaty of Tordesillas, splitting new lands between them without asking the people who lived there, which is why Brazil speaks Portuguese. Who acts: Spain, people. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers: around Africa and Columbus» of the history --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Explorers: around Africa and Columbus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/) / 17 # Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, sentence 17 In 1494 Spain and Portugal agreed a line on the map, the Treaty of Tordesillas, splitting new lands between them without asking the people who lived there, which is why Brazil speaks Portuguese. **Who acts:** Spain, people · **What happens:** agree, split, ask, live, be · **To what, where:** line, 1494, new lands, people This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers: around Africa and Columbus» of the history 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 (Spain, people), 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:17 # text = In 1494 Spain and Portugal agreed a line on the map, the Treaty of Tordesillas, splitting new lands between them without asking the people who lived there, which is why Brazil speaks Portuguese. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1494 1494 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 3 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Treaty Treaty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Tordesillas Tordesillas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 splitting split VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 19 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 between between ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nmod _ _ 23 without without SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 34 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 speaks speak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 36 Portuguese Portuguese PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | Spain and Portugal | a line | | 1494 | | on the map | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent line=Topic | | 2 | **split** | gerund | Spain and Portugal *not said here* | new lands | | | | between lands *= land* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Spain and Portugal *not said here* | | the people | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | | 4 | **live** | past | the people | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | the people | | | | | speak *property* | 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:17`. **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, 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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