Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius, sentence 10

Traders travelled in caravans of camels, which can go a long time without drinking, across the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts, resting in oasis towns.

Who acts: Traders, camels · What happens: travel, go, drink, rest · To what, where: caravans, Gobi deserts, oasis towns

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius» of the history 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 (Traders, camels), 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	Traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 travelled	nsubj
2	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 caravans	case
4	caravans	caravan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 travelled	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 camels	case
6	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 caravans	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 go	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 camels	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	15 drinking	mark
15	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 go	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 deserts	punct
17	across	across	ADP	_	22 deserts	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 deserts	det
19	Gobi	Gobi	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 deserts	compound
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Taklamakan	cc
21	Taklamakan	Taklamakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Gobi	conj
22	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 go	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 resting	punct
24	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 travelled	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 towns	case
26	oasis	oasis	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 towns	compound
27	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 resting	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	travel	past	Traders	caravans of camels		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in caravan=Trajectory
2	go	can	camels	the Gobi deserts	time	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across desert=Initial_Location
3	drink	gerund	camels not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rest	gerund	Traders not said here	oasis towns		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=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:history:010-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius.lesson:10.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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