Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius, sentence 8
The Silk Road was not one road but a web of trade routes across deserts and mountains between China, Central Asia, Persia and the Mediterranean.
Who acts: Silk Road · What happens: not be · To what, where: one road
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 Road), 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 | 3 Road | det |
| 2 | Silk | silk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Road | compound |
| 3 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 road | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 road | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 road | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 road | nummod |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 web | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 web | det |
| 10 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 road | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 routes | case |
| 12 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 routes | compound |
| 13 | routes | route | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 web | nmod |
| 14 | across | across | ADP | _ | 15 deserts | case |
| 15 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 routes | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mountains | cc |
| 17 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 deserts | conj |
| 18 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 China | case |
| 19 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 deserts | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Asia | punct |
| 21 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Asia | flat |
| 22 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 China | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Persia | punct |
| 24 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 China | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Mediterranean | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Mediterranean | det |
| 27 | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 China | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 road | 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 | not is a | past | the Silk Road | one road but a web of trade routes across deserts between China and Central Asia and Persia and the Mediterranean and mountains | 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: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): no change. 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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