The Silk Road, sentence 11
Few traders travelled the whole Silk Road; goods usually passed from merchant to merchant and market to market.
Who acts: Few traders · What happens: travel, pass · To what, where: whole Silk Road, goods, merchant
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Silk Road» 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 (Few traders), 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 | Few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 traders | amod |
| 2 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 travelled | nsubj |
| 3 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Road | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Road | amod |
| 6 | Silk | Silk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Road | compound |
| 7 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 travelled | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
| 9 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 11 passed | advmod |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 travelled | parataxis |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 merchant | case |
| 13 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 merchant | case |
| 15 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 market | cc |
| 17 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 merchant | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 market | case |
| 19 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 market | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | Few traders | the whole Silk Road | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location road=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass | past · passive | goods | merchant | to merchant and market to market; usually property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from merchant=Initial_Location to merchant=Destination |
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:028-the-silk-road.lesson:11.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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