Resources and what countries trade, sentence 15

Silver from Potosí in Bolivia and from Mexico flowed to Europe and across the Pacific to China in the 1500s to 1700s, because China wanted silver and paid for it with silk, tea and porcelain.

Who acts: Silver, China · What happens: flow, want, pay · To what, where: Europe, 1500s, silver

This is a sentence of the lesson «Resources and what countries trade» 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 (Silver, China), 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	Silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flowed	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Potosí	case
3	Potosí	Potosí	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Silver	nmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Bolivia	case
5	Bolivia	Bolivia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Potosí	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Mexico	cc
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Mexico	case
8	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Bolivia	conj
9	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Europe	case
11	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 flowed	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Pacific	cc
13	across	across	ADP	_	15 Pacific	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Pacific	det
15	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Europe	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 China	case
17	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 flowed	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 1500s	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 1500s	det
20	1500s	1500	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	9 flowed	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 1700s	case
22	1700s	1700	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	20 1500s	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wanted	punct
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 wanted	mark
25	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 wanted	nsubj
26	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 flowed	advcl
27	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wanted	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 paid	cc
29	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 wanted	conj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 paid	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 silk	case
33	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 paid	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 tea	punct
35	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 silk	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 porcelain	cc
37	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 silk	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 flowed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	flow	past	Silver from Potosí in Bolivia and Mexico		Europe and the Pacific	the 1500s to 1700s	to China	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1500=Location
2	want	past	China	silver				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot silver=Theme
3	pay	past	China not said here				for silver; with silk and tea and porcelain	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme

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:027-resources-and-what-countries-trade.lesson:15.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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