--- title: Europeans sailed into the unknown mostly to reach the spices, silk a… — Explorers: around Africa and Columbus · tree and pragmatics description: Europeans sailed into the unknown mostly to reach the spices, silk and gold of Asia by sea, because the land routes were long and controlled by others. Who acts: Europeans, land routes. 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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), 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:5 # text = Europeans sailed into the unknown mostly to reach the spices, silk and gold of Asia by sea, because the land routes were long and controlled by others. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Europeans European PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 unknown unknown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obl _ _ 6 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 spices spice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 17 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 routes route NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 controlled control VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl:agent _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **sail** | past | Europeans | | | the unknown | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into unknown=Trajectory | | 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive | Europeans *not said here* | the spices of Asia and silk and gold | | | | by sea; mostly *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spice=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | the land routes | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **control** | participle | the land routes *not said here* | | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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