The Silk Road, sentence 21

After about 1500 more trade between Europe and Asia went by sea, because ships could carry far more goods more cheaply, so the overland Silk Road became less important.

Who acts: 1500 more trade, ships, overland Silk Road · What happens: go, carry, become · To what, where: more goods

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 (1500 more trade, ships, overland Silk Road), 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	After	after	ADP	_	5 trade	case
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 1500	advmod
3	1500	1500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 trade	nummod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 trade	amod
5	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
6	between	between	ADP	_	7 Europe	case
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 trade	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Asia	cc
9	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Europe	conj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 sea	case
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 carry	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 carry	mark
15	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 carry	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 carry	aux
17	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 went	advcl
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 more	advmod
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 goods	amod
20	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	17 carry	obj
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 cheaply	advmod
22	cheaply	cheaply	ADV	_	17 carry	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 became	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	29 became	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Road	det
26	overland	overland	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Road	amod
27	Silk	Silk	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Road	compound
28	Road	Road	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 became	nsubj
29	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	parataxis
30	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 important	advmod
31	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 became	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	1500 more trade between Europe and Asia		by sea	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by sea=Location
2	carry	could	ships	more goods	cheaply property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme
3	become	past	the overland Silk Road		important property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:21.

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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