--- title: In 1519 Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese sailor working for Spain, s… — Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the pe… · tree and pragmatics description: In 1519 Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese sailor working for Spain, set off west with five ships and about 270 men to reach the Spice Islands of Asia. Who acts: Portuguese sailor. 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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 (Portuguese sailor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:027-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there.lesson:0 # text = In 1519 Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese sailor working for Spain, set off west with five ships and about 270 men to reach the Spice Islands of Asia. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 027-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there.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 _ 4 case _ _ 2 1519 1519 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nummod 3 Ferdinand Ferdinand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Magellan magellan NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Portuguese Portuguese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 sailor sailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 9 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 off off ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 west west ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 270 270 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 Spice spice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Islands Island PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | gerund | a Portuguese sailor *not said here* | | | | | for Spain | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for spain=Beneficiary | | 2 | **set off** | past | a Portuguese sailor | 1519 | | Ferdinand Magellan | | with five ships and 270 men; west *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive | a Portuguese sailor *not said here* | the Spice Islands of Asia | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent island=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:027-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there.lesson:0`. **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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