The Silk Road, sentence 6
It carried disease too: the Black Death is thought to have spread west along trade routes in the 1340s.
Who acts: road · What happens: carry, think, spread · To what, where: disease, Black Death, 1340s
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), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obj |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 carried | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Death | det |
| 7 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Death | amod |
| 8 | Death | death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | aux:pass |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 carried | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 spread | mark |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 spread | aux |
| 13 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 thought | xcomp |
| 14 | west | west | ADV | _ | 13 spread | advmod |
| 15 | along | along | ADP | _ | 17 routes | case |
| 16 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 routes | compound |
| 17 | routes | route | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 spread | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 1340s | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 1340s | det |
| 20 | 1340s | 1340 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 13 spread | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | road | disease | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present · passive | the Black Death | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spread | to-infinitive · perfect | the 1340s | along trade routes; west property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along route=Location |
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:6.
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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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