--- title: Prince Henry of Portugal sent sailors down the coast of Africa in ca… — Explorers: around Africa and Columbus · tree and pragmatics description: Prince Henry of Portugal sent sailors down the coast of Africa in caravels, small handy ships, though he did not sail on these voyages himself. Who acts: Henry. 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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 (Henry), 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:6 # text = Prince Henry of Portugal sent sailors down the coast of Africa in caravels, small handy ships, though he did not sail on these voyages himself. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Henry Henry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 down down ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 caravels caravel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 handy handy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 though though SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 sail sail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 26 voyages voyage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj 27 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod:unmarked 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | Henry Prince of Portugal | sailors | | caravels | | down the coast of Africa | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sailor=Theme in caravel=Destination | | 2 | **not** **sail** | past · do-support | Henry | Henry | | this voyages | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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:6`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/5/) - next →: [Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/)