Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius, sentence 3
Silk, spices and ideas travelled along the Silk Road, which was not one road but a web of routes across deserts and mountains, walked by camel caravans resting at oasis towns.
Who acts: Silk, Silk Road, camel caravans · What happens: travel, not be, walk, rest · To what, where: Silk Road, one road, 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 (Silk, Silk Road, camel caravans), 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 | Silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 travelled | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spices | punct |
| 3 | spices | spice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Silk | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ideas | cc |
| 5 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spices | conj |
| 6 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 Road | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Road | det |
| 9 | Silk | Silk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Road | compound |
| 10 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 travelled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 road | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 road | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 road | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 road | advmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 road | nummod |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Road | acl:relcl |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 web | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 web | det |
| 19 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 road | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 routes | case |
| 21 | routes | route | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 web | nmod |
| 22 | across | across | ADP | _ | 23 deserts | case |
| 23 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 routes | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 mountains | cc |
| 25 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 deserts | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 walked | punct |
| 27 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 road | acl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 caravans | case |
| 29 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 caravans | compound |
| 30 | caravans | caravan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 walked | obl:agent |
| 31 | resting | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 caravans | acl |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 towns | case |
| 33 | oasis | oasis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 towns | compound |
| 34 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 resting | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | Silk and spices and ideas | the Silk Road | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | the Silk Road | one road but a web of routes across deserts and mountains | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | walk | participle | one road but a web of routes across deserts and mountains not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rest | gerund | camel caravans not said here | oasis towns | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 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:3.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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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