The Silk Road, sentence 19
The Silk Road carried ideas as well as goods, such as Buddhism from India to China and papermaking from China westward.
Who acts: Silk · What happens: carry · To what, where: ideas
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 (Silk), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Road | det |
| 2 | Silk | silk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Silk | flat |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carried | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 4 carried | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 as | fixed |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 goods | case |
| 9 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 ideas | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Buddhism | punct |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 13 Buddhism | case |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 such | fixed |
| 13 | Buddhism | Buddhism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 India | case |
| 15 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Buddhism | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 China | case |
| 17 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Buddhism | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 papermaking | cc |
| 19 | papermaking | papermaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Buddhism | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 China | case |
| 21 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 papermaking | nmod |
| 22 | westward | westward | ADV | _ | 19 papermaking | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | Silk | ideas and goods | such Buddhism from India to China and papermaking from China | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=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:19.
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. 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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