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title: Vasco da Gama and his 4th Portuguese India Armada discovered the Sey… — Seychelles · tree and pragmatics
description: Vasco da Gama and his 4th Portuguese India Armada discovered the Seychelles on 15 March 1503; the first sighting was made by Thomé Lopes aboard Rui Mendes de Brito. Who acts: Vasco da Gama, Thomé Lopes. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Seychelles» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Seychelles, sentence 20

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From Wikipedia, [«Seychelles»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seychelles), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Vasco da Gama and his 4th Portuguese India Armada discovered the Seychelles on 15 March 1503; the first sighting was made by Thomé Lopes aboard Rui Mendes de Brito.

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**Who acts:** Vasco da Gama, Thomé Lopes · **What happens:** discover, make · **To what, where:** Seychelles, 15, first sighting

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Seychelles». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasco da Gama, Thomé Lopes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:Seychelles:20
# text = Vasco da Gama and his 4th Portuguese India Armada discovered the Seychelles on 15 March 1503; the first sighting was made by Thomé Lopes aboard Rui Mendes de Brito.
1	Vasco	Vasco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	da	Da	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Gama	Gama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
6	4th	4th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
7	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Armada	Armada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Seychelles	Seychelles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
15	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	1503	1503	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	sighting	sighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Thomé	Thomé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Lopes	lope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	aboard	aboard	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Rui	Rui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Mendes	Mende	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
30	Brito	Brito	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | past | Vasco da Gama and most's 4th Portuguese India Armada | the Seychelles |  | 15  March |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seychelles=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive | Thomé Lopes aboard Rui Mendes | the first sighting |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |

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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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Seychelles», 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.

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