The Silk Road, sentence 18
Marco Polo of Venice wrote a famous account of his journey to the court of Kublai Khan in China in the late 1200s, though some details of his book are doubted.
Who acts: Marco Polo, Polo · What happens: write, doubt, account, journey, detail · To what, where: famous account, late 1200s, details, journey, book
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 (Marco Polo, Polo), 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 | Marco | Marco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Polo | compound |
| 2 | Polo | Polo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wrote | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Venice | case |
| 4 | Venice | Venice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Polo | nmod |
| 5 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 account | det |
| 7 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 account | amod |
| 8 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrote | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 journey | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 journey | nmod:poss |
| 11 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 account | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 court | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 court | det |
| 14 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 journey | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Kublai | case |
| 16 | Kublai | Kublai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 court | nmod |
| 17 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Kublai | flat |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 China | case |
| 19 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 court | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 1200s | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 1200s | det |
| 22 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 1200s | amod |
| 23 | 1200s | 1200 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 5 wrote | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 doubted | punct |
| 25 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 32 doubted | mark |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 details | det |
| 27 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 doubted | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 book | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 book | nmod:poss |
| 30 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 details | nmod |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 doubted | aux:pass |
| 32 | doubted | doubt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wrote | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Marco Polo of Venice | a famous account of Polo's journey to the court of Kublai in China | the late 1200s | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent account=Theme in 1200=Destination | |||
| 2 | doubt | present · passive | some details of Polo's book | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | account | Polo's journey to the court of Kublai in China | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | journey | Polo | to the court of Kublai in China | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | |||||
| 5 | detail | Polo's book | nom detail «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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:18.
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 ×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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