Africa: countries and capitals, sentence 17

The Mali Empire was one of the richest states in the world in the 1300s, and Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 carried so much gold that its price fell in Cairo.

Who acts: Mali Empire, pilgrimage, price · What happens: be, carry, fall · To what, where: one, 1300s, much gold, Cairo

This is a sentence of the lesson «Africa: countries and capitals» of the geography 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 (Mali Empire, pilgrimage, price), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Empire	det
2	Mali	Mali	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Empire	compound
3	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 states	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 states	det
8	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 states	amod
9	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 states	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 1300s	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 1300s	det
15	1300s	1300	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	5 one	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 carried	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pilgrimage	cc
18	Mansa	Mansa	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 pilgrimage	nmod:poss
19	Musa	Musa	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Mansa	flat
20	's	's	PART	_	18 Mansa	case
21	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carried	nsubj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 Mecca	case
23	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 pilgrimage	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 1324	case
25	1324	1324	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 pilgrimage	nmod
26	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	conj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 gold	amod
29	gold	gold	NOUN	_	26 carried	obj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 fell	mark
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 price	nmod:poss
32	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fell	nsubj
33	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 carried	advcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 Cairo	case
35	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 fell	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Mali Empire	one	the 1300s	of the richest states in the world	tree rules
2	carry	past	Mansa's pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324	much gold			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
3	fall	past	pilgrimage's price		Cairo		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cairo=Location

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:geography:013-africa-countries-and-capitals.lesson:17.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

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