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title: John Cabot reached Newfoundland in 1497 and Jacques Cartier sailed u… — Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the pe… · tree and pragmatics
description: John Cabot reached Newfoundland in 1497 and Jacques Cartier sailed up the St Lawrence River in the 1530s, both looking for a northern passage to Asia. Who acts: John, Jacques, both. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there» of the history course of
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# Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 15

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John Cabot reached Newfoundland in 1497 and Jacques Cartier sailed up the St Lawrence River in the 1530s, both looking for a northern passage to Asia.

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**Who acts:** John, Jacques, both · **What happens:** reach, sail up, look · **To what, where:** Newfoundland, 1497, St Lawrence River, 1530s

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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 (John, Jacques, both), 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:15
# text = John Cabot reached Newfoundland in 1497 and Jacques Cartier sailed up the St Lawrence River in the 1530s, both looking for a northern passage to 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Cabot	Cabot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Newfoundland	Newfoundland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1497	1497	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	Jacques	Jacques	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Cartier	Cartier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	up	up	PART	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	St	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nmod:desc
14	Lawrence	Lawrence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	1530s	1530	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	_
21	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **reach** | past | John | Newfoundland |  | 1497 |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent newfoundland=Theme |
| 2 | **sail up** | past | Jacques | the St Lawrence River |  | the 1530s |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | both |  |  |  |  | for a northern passage to Asia | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for passage=Theme |

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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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**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:15`.

**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, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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