--- title: Inventions of on-board gibbing and the haringbuis in 1415, made long… — Amsterdam · tree and pragmatics description: Inventions of on-board gibbing and the haringbuis in 1415, made longer voyages feasible and hence enabled Dutch fishermen to follow the herring shoals far from the coasts, giving them a monopoly in the industry. Who acts: board, Inventions. 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Inventions of on-board gibbing and the haringbuis in 1415, made longer voyages feasible and hence enabled Dutch fishermen to follow the herring shoals far from the coasts, giving them a monopoly in the industry. **Who acts:** board, Inventions · **What happens:** gibb, make, enable, follow, give, invent · **To what, where:** longer voyages, Dutch fishermen, herring shoals, monopoly, shoals, industry This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Amsterdam». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (board, Inventions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Amsterdam:63 # text = Inventions of on-board gibbing and the haringbuis in 1415, made longer voyages feasible and hence enabled Dutch fishermen to follow the herring shoals far from the coasts, giving them a monopoly in the industry. 1 Inventions invention NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 6 gibbing gibb VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 haringbuis haringbuis NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 1415 1415 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 13 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 amod _ _ 15 voyages voyage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 feasible feasible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 hence hence ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 enabled enable VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 Dutch dutch ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 fishermen fisherman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 herring herring NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 shoals shoal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 coasts coast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 iobj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 monopoly monopoly NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 industry industry NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gibb** | gerund | board and the haringbuis in 1415 *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | past | Inventions of board and the haringbuis in 1415 | longer voyages | | | | feasible *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product | | 3 | **enable** | past | Inventions of board and the haringbuis in 1415 *not said here* | Dutch fishermen | | | | hence *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **follow** | to-infinitive | Inventions of board and the haringbuis in 1415 *not said here* | the herring shoals | | | | far *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoal=Theme | | 5 | **give** | gerund | Inventions of board and the haringbuis in 1415 *not said here* | a monopoly | shoals *= shoal* | the industry | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient monopoly=Theme | | 6 | **invent** | | | board and the haringbuis in 1415 | | | | | nom invention «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Amsterdam», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0. - ← previous: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Amsterdam/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Amsterdam/64/) - ↑ back to [Amsterdam](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Amsterdam/)