The Silk Road, sentence 3

Caravans of two-humped Bactrian camels crossed cold deserts from one oasis to the next, resting at inns called caravanserais about a day's march apart.

Who acts: Caravans, inns · What happens: hump, cross, rest, call · To what, where: cold deserts, next, one oasis, inns, caravanserais · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Caravans, inns), 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	Caravans	caravan	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 crossed	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	7 camels	case
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 camels	nummod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
5	humped	hump	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 camels	amod
6	Bactrian	bactrian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 camels	amod
7	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Caravans	nmod
8	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 deserts	amod
10	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 crossed	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 oasis	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 oasis	nummod
13	oasis	oasis	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crossed	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 next	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 next	det
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crossed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 resting	punct
18	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 crossed	advcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 inns	case
20	inns	inn	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 resting	obl
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 inns	acl
22	caravanserais	caravanserai	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 called	xcomp
23	about	about	ADP	_	27 march	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 march	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 day	case
27	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 inns	nmod
28	apart	apart	ADV	_	18 resting	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hump	participle						tree rules
2	cross	past	Caravans of two humped Bactrian camels	cold deserts	the next	one oasis		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent desert=Patient to next=Recipient
3	rest	gerund	Caravans of two humped Bactrian camels not said here			inns about a day's march	apart property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at inn=Location
4	call	participle	inns about a day's march not said here	caravanserais				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:3.

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): 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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