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description: He found a stormy passage at the tip of South America and came out onto an ocean so calm that he named it the Pacific, meaning peaceful, never guessing it was the biggest ocean on Earth. Who acts: sailor, passage. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already
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# Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 1

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He found a stormy passage at the tip of South America and came out onto an ocean so calm that he named it the Pacific, meaning peaceful, never guessing it was the biggest ocean on Earth.

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**Who acts:** sailor, passage · **What happens:** find, come out, name, mean, not guess, be · **To what, where:** stormy passage, tip, ocean, passage, biggest ocean, Earth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there» 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 (sailor, passage), 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:1
# text = He found a stormy passage at the tip of South America and came out onto an ocean so calm that he named it the Pacific, meaning peaceful, never guessing it was the biggest ocean on Earth.
# 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): no change
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	stormy	stormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	named	name	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	parataxis	_	_
28	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	guessing	guess	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	36	amod	_	_
36	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	ccomp	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | sailor | a stormy passage |  | the tip of South America |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent passage=Theme at tip=Asset |
| 2 | **come out** | past | sailor *not said here* |  |  | a ocean |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **name** | past | sailor | passage |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | peaceful *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **guess** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past | passage | the biggest ocean |  | Earth |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

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