The Silk Road, sentence 7
Europa Universalis 5 passes trade from one market to the next in a chain, which is close to how the routes really worked.
Who acts: Europa, chain, routes · What happens: pass, be, work · To what, where: trade, one market
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 (Europa, chain, routes), 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 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 passes | nsubj |
| 2 | Universalis | Universalis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Europa | flat |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Europa | flat |
| 4 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passes | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 market | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 market | nummod |
| 8 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trade | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 next | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 next | det |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 market | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 chain | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chain | det |
| 14 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 next | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 close | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 close | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 close | cop |
| 18 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chain | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 worked | case |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 worked | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 routes | det |
| 22 | routes | route | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 worked | nsubj |
| 23 | really | really | ADV | _ | 24 worked | advmod |
| 24 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 close | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trade | 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 | pass | present | Europa | trade | one market to the next in a chain | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent trade=Theme from market=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | a chain | close property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | work | past | the routes | vn employment-95.3 «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:7.
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): no change. 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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