The Silk Road, sentence 14
Caravanserais, inns spaced about a day's journey apart, gave caravans safe places to rest.
Who acts: Caravanserais, day · What happens: space, give, rest, journey · To what, where: inns, safe places, caravans
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 (Caravanserais, day), 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 | Caravanserais | caravanserai | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 inns | punct |
| 3 | inns | inn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Caravanserais | appos |
| 4 | spaced | space | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 inns | acl |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 journey | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 journey | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 day | case |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spaced | obl |
| 10 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 4 spaced | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spaced | punct |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | caravans | caravan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 places | amod |
| 15 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gave | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 rest | mark |
| 17 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 places | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | space | participle | inns not said here | about a day's journey; apart property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Caravanserais | safe places | caravans | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent caravan=Recipient place=Theme | |||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | Caravanserais not said here | safe places not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | journey | a day | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:14.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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