Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius, sentence 15
The Chinese printed books with carved wooden blocks over 1,100 years ago; the Diamond Sutra of 868 is the oldest dated printed book.
Who acts: Diamond Sutra · What happens: print, carve, date, be · To what, where: oldest dated printed book
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 (Diamond Sutra), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 books | det |
| 2 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 books | amod |
| 3 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 books | amod | |
| 4 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ago | nsubj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 blocks | case |
| 6 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 blocks | amod |
| 7 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 blocks | amod |
| 8 | blocks | block | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 books | nmod |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 1,100 | advmod |
| 10 | 1,100 | 1,100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 24 book | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 ago | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Sutra | det |
| 15 | Diamond | Diamond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Sutra | compound |
| 16 | Sutra | Sutra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 book | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 868 | case |
| 18 | 868 | 868 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 Sutra | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 book | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 book | det |
| 21 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 book | amod |
| 22 | dated | date | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 book | amod |
| 23 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 book | amod | |
| 24 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 book | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||||
| 2 | carve | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | date | participle | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||||
| 5 | is a | present | the Diamond Sutra of 868 | the oldest dated printed book | ago property | tree rules |
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:15.
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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