The Silk Road, sentence 13

Goods crossed the deserts of Central Asia in caravans of Bactrian camels, which have two humps, go a long time without water and survive cold winters.

Who acts: Goods, Bactrian camels · What happens: cross, have, go, survive · To what, where: deserts, two humps

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 (Goods, Bactrian camels), 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	Goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 crossed	nsubj
2	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deserts	det
4	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crossed	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Asia	case
6	Central	Central	PROPN	_	7 Asia	compound
7	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 deserts	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 caravans	case
9	caravans	caravan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crossed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 camels	case
11	Bactrian	bactrian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 camels	amod
12	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 caravans	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 camels	acl:relcl
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 humps	nummod
17	humps	hump	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
19	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 have	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 time	det
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 time	amod
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
23	without	without	ADP	_	24 water	case
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 survive	cc
26	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 go	conj
27	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 winters	amod
28	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 survive	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cross	past	Goods	the deserts of Central Asia		in caravans of Bactrian camels	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent desert=Patient in caravan=Topic
2	have	present	Bactrian camels	two humps			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hump=Patient
3	go	present	Bactrian camels not said here		time	without water	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	survive	present	Bactrian camels not said here		winter		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:028-the-silk-road.lesson:13.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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