--- title: In 1498 Vasco da Gama sailed around the southern tip of Africa and r… — Explorers: around Africa and Columbus · tree and pragmatics description: In 1498 Vasco da Gama sailed around the southern tip of Africa and reached India by sea, and Portugal grew rich from the spice trade. Who acts: Vasco da Gama, Portugal. 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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 (Vasco da Gama, Portugal), 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:7 # text = In 1498 Vasco da Gama sailed around the southern tip of Africa and reached India by sea, and Portugal grew rich from the spice trade. # 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): no change 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1498 1498 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 3 Vasco Vasco PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 da da PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Gama Gama PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 around around ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 22 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 spice spice NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 . . 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 | **sail** | past | Vasco da Gama | | | 1498 | | around the southern tip of Africa | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around tip=Trajectory | | 2 | **reach** | past | Vasco da Gama *not said here* | India | | | | by sea | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent india=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | past | Portugal | | | | | rich *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:7`. **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): no change. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/6/) - next →: [Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/)