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title: Spanish soldiers called conquistadors conquered huge lands in the Am… — Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the pe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Spanish soldiers called conquistadors conquered huge lands in the Americas looking for gold, and native peoples lost their land and freedom. Who acts: Spanish soldiers, Americas, native peoples. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there» of the hist
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# Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 13

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Spanish soldiers called conquistadors conquered huge lands in the Americas looking for gold, and native peoples lost their land and freedom.

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**Who acts:** Spanish soldiers, Americas, native peoples · **What happens:** call, conquer, look, lose · **To what, where:** conquistadors, huge lands, Americas, land · **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 (Spanish soldiers, Americas, native peoples), 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:13
# text = Spanish soldiers called conquistadors conquered huge lands in the Americas looking for gold, and native peoples lost their land and freedom.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	conquistadors	conquistador	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	xcomp	_	_
5	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Americas	Americas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl
11	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **call** | participle | Spanish soldiers *not said here* | conquistadors |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **conquer** | past | Spanish soldiers | huge lands |  | the Americas |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | the Americas *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for gold | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for gold=Theme |
| 4 | **lose** | past | native peoples | people's land and freedom |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Eventuality |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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