<span>The Bard's paternal grandfather was Richard Shakespeare
(d. 1561), a farmer in Snitterfield, a village four miles northeast of
Stratford. ... Robert Arden had accumulated much property, and when he
died, he named his daughter (Shakespeare's mother) Mary, only sixteen at the time, one of his executors.</span>
Imus (de jure) Trece Martires (de facto)
Explanation: Trece Martires
A: direct object. In a sentence like this, you need to re-arrange it to: I saw a "sprout" in the pot soon after I planted the seeds. I is the subject, saw is the predicate, sprout is the direct object.
I am studying “japaneses” because I find the language rather intriguing and the style of the words beautifully written.