The Silk Road, sentence 8

But at its start in 1337 the Mongol peace that had made the roads safe was already breaking into rival khanates, and after about 1500 more Asian goods went to Europe by sea.

Who acts: Mongol peace, more Asian goods, chain · What happens: make, break, go, start · To what, where: roads, start, Europe

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 (Mongol peace, more Asian goods, chain), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	18 breaking	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 start	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 start	nmod:poss
4	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 breaking	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1337	case
6	1337	1337	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 start	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 peace	det
8	Mongol	mongol	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 peace	compound
9	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 breaking	nsubj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 made	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	aux
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 peace	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 roads	det
14	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 made	obj
15	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 made	xcomp
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 breaking	aux
17	already	already	ADV	_	18 breaking	advmod
18	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 khanates	case
20	rival	rival	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 khanates	amod
21	khanates	khanate	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 breaking	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
24	after	after	ADP	_	26 1500	case
25	about	about	ADV	_	26 1500	advmod
26	1500	1500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 went	obl
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 goods	amod
28	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 goods	amod
29	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 breaking	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 Europe	case
32	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 went	obl
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 sea	case
34	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 breaking	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect	the Mongol peace	the roads			safe property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset road=Product
2	break	past · progressive	the Mongol peace		chain's start in 1337		into rival khanates	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at start=Location
3	go	past	more Asian goods		Europe	after 1500	by sea	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to europe=Initial_Location
4	start		chain					nom start «event transitive»: poss=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:8.

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 ×1, 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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