The Silk Road, sentence 5
The road carried more than silk: horses, paper, glass and spices, and also ideas such as Buddhism going to China and papermaking going west.
Who acts: road, Buddhism · What happens: carry, go · To what, where: more, ideas, China
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 (road, Buddhism), 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 | 2 road | det |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 3 carried | obj |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 more | fixed |
| 6 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 horses | punct |
| 8 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 silk | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 paper | punct |
| 10 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 horses | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 glass | punct |
| 12 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 horses | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spices | cc |
| 14 | spices | spice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 horses | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ideas | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ideas | cc |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 ideas | advmod |
| 18 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 horses | conj |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 21 Buddhism | case |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 such | fixed |
| 21 | Buddhism | Buddhism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 going | nsubj |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 ideas | acl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 China | case |
| 24 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 going | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 papermaking | cc |
| 26 | papermaking | papermaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 China | conj |
| 27 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 going | advcl |
| 28 | west | west | ADV | _ | 27 going | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the road | more | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme more=Beneficiary silk=Value | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | Buddhism | ideas not said here | China and papermaking | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location idea=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | gerund | Buddhism not said here | west property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:5.
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. 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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