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title: Magellan found a stormy passage at the tip of South America, now cal… — Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the pe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Magellan found a stormy passage at the tip of South America, now called the Strait of Magellan, and entered an ocean he named the Pacific, meaning peaceful. Who acts: Magellan. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there» of the history course of Mova
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# Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there, sentence 6

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Magellan found a stormy passage at the tip of South America, now called the Strait of Magellan, and entered an ocean he named the Pacific, meaning peaceful.

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**Who acts:** Magellan · **What happens:** find, call, enter, name, mean · **To what, where:** stormy passage, tip, ocean, Pacific · **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 (Magellan), 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:6
# text = Magellan found a stormy passage at the tip of South America, now called the Strait of Magellan, and entered an ocean he named the Pacific, meaning peaceful.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Magellan	Magellan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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	2	obl	_	_
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	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Strait	Strait	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Magellan	Magellan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	named	name	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
30	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	.	.	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 | Magellan | 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 | **call** | participle |  | a stormy passage *not said here* |  |  | now |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **enter** | past | Magellan *not said here* | a ocean |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ocean=Destination |
| 4 | **name** | past | Magellan | the Pacific |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pacific=Theme |
| 5 | **mean** | gerund | Magellan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | peaceful *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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): 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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