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title: Explorers were brave and skilled, but their voyages also opened the… — Explorers: Cook and the Pacific · tree and pragmatics
description: Explorers were brave and skilled, but their voyages also opened the way for colonies that took land from local peoples. Who acts: Explorers, voyages, colonies, navigators. A sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Cook and the Pacific» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Explorers: Cook and the Pacific, sentence 15

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Explorers were brave and skilled, but their voyages also opened the way for colonies that took land from local peoples.

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**Who acts:** Explorers, voyages, colonies, navigators · **What happens:** be, open, take, voyage · **To what, where:** way, land

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Explorers: Cook and the Pacific» 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 (Explorers, voyages, colonies, navigators), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:028-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific.lesson:15
# text = Explorers were brave and skilled, but their voyages also opened the way for colonies that took land from local peoples.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 028-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific.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	Explorers	explorer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	skilled	skilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	voyages	voyage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **is** | past | Explorers |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Explorers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **open** | past | navigators's voyages | the way |  |  |  | for colonies | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past | colonies | land |  |  |  | from local peoples | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent land=Theme from people=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **voyage** |  | navigators *= navigator* |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=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): 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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