--- title: From 1405 to 1433 the Chinese admiral Zheng He led huge fleets acros… — Explorers: around Africa and Columbus · tree and pragmatics description: From 1405 to 1433 the Chinese admiral Zheng He led huge fleets across the Indian Ocean as far as East Africa. Who acts: Zheng. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers: around Africa and Columbus» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, sentence 8 From 1405 to 1433 the Chinese admiral Zheng He led huge fleets across the Indian Ocean as far as East Africa. **Who acts:** Zheng · **What happens:** lead · **To what, where:** huge fleets, 1405 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 (Zheng), 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:8 # text = From 1405 to 1433 the Chinese admiral Zheng He led huge fleets across the Indian Ocean as far as East Africa. # 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 ×2 1 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1405 1405 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 1433 1433 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 6 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 admiral admiral NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 8 Zheng Zheng PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 He He PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 fleets fleet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 across across ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Ocean Ocean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 17 as as ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead** | past | Zheng | huge fleets | | 1405 to 1433 | | across the Indian Ocean; far *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fleet=Theme from 1405=Destination | 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:8`. **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 ×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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/7/) - next →: [Explorers: around Africa and Columbus, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/)