The Silk Road, sentence 9
Nobody in 1300 called it the Silk Road: a German geographer, Ferdinand von Richthofen, invented the name in 1877.
Who acts: Nobody, German geographer · What happens: call, invent · To what, where: road, name, 1877 · 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 (Nobody, German geographer), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 called | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 1300 | case |
| 3 | 1300 | 1300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Nobody | nmod |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Road | det |
| 7 | Silk | Silk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Road | compound |
| 8 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 geographer | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 geographer | det |
| 11 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 geographer | amod |
| 12 | geographer | geographer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 invented | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ferdinand | punct |
| 14 | Ferdinand | Ferdinand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 geographer | appos |
| 15 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 14 Ferdinand | flat:foreign |
| 16 | Richthofen | Richthofen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ferdinand | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 invented | punct |
| 18 | invented | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 name | det |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 invented | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 1877 | case |
| 22 | 1877 | 1877 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 invented | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | 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 | call speech: assert | past | Nobody | road | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | invent | past | a German geographer | the name | 1877 | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Result |
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:9.
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. 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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