Africa: countries and capitals, sentence 3

Long before that, Africa had great states of its own: the Mali Empire of the 1300s was one of the richest in the world, and its ruler Mansa Musa carried so much gold to Mecca in 1324 that the price of gold fell in Cairo.

Who acts: Africa, Mali Empire, ruler, price · What happens: have, be, carry, fall · To what, where: great states, one, much gold, Mecca, 1324, 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 (Africa, Mali Empire, ruler, 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 had	advmod
2	before	before	ADP	_	3 that	case
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Dem	1 Long	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Long	punct
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 states	amod
8	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 own	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 own	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 states	nmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 one	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Empire	det
14	Mali	Mali	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Empire	compound
15	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 one	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 1300s	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 1300s	det
18	1300s	1300	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	15 Empire	nmod
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 one	cop
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 had	parataxis
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 richest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 richest	det
23	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 one	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 world	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 richest	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 carried	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 carried	cc
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 ruler	nmod:poss
30	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 carried	nsubj
31	Mansa	Mansa	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 ruler	appos
32	Musa	Musa	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Mansa	flat
33	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 one	conj
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 much	advmod
35	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 gold	amod
36	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 carried	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 Mecca	case
38	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 carried	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 1324	case
40	1324	1324	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 carried	obl
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 fell	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 price	det
43	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 fell	nsubj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 gold	case
45	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 price	nmod
46	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 carried	advcl
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 Cairo	case
48	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 fell	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Africa	great states of room's own			long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Patient
2	is a	past	the Mali Empire of the 1300s	one			of the richest	tree rules
3	carry	past	Empire's ruler	much gold	Mecca	1324		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gold=Theme to mecca=Destination
4	fall	past	the price of gold			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:3.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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