The Silk Road, sentence 16
In the 1200s and 1300s the Mongol Empire controlled most of the Silk Road, making it safer for traders to cross.
Who acts: Mongol Empire, traders · What happens: control, make, cross · To what, where: most, 1200s
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 (Mongol Empire, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 1200s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 1200s | det |
| 3 | 1200s | 1200 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 9 controlled | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 1300s | cc |
| 5 | 1300s | 1300 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 3 1200s | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Empire | det |
| 7 | Mongol | mongol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Empire | compound |
| 8 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 controlled | nsubj |
| 9 | controlled | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 controlled | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Road | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Road | det |
| 13 | Silk | Silk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Road | compound |
| 14 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 most | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 making | punct |
| 16 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 controlled | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 safer | nsubj |
| 18 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 making | xcomp |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 cross | mark |
| 20 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cross | nsubj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 cross | mark |
| 22 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 safer | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 controlled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | control | past | the Mongol Empire | most of the Silk Road | the 1200s and 1300s | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | gerund | the Mongol Empire not said here | safe property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | cross | to-infinitive | traders | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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:16.
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 ×3, 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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