Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius, sentence 9
Along the Silk Road travelled not only goods but also ideas, religions and inventions.
Who acts: goods · What happens: travel · To what, where: Silk 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 (goods), 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 | Along | along | ADP | _ | 4 Road | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Road | det |
| 3 | Silk | Silk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Road | compound |
| 4 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 travelled | obl |
| 5 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 goods | advmod |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 goods | advmod |
| 8 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 travelled | nsubj |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 ideas | cc |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 ideas | advmod |
| 11 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 goods | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 religions | punct |
| 13 | religions | religion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ideas | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 inventions | cc |
| 15 | inventions | invention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ideas | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | goods but ideas and religions and inventions | the Silk Road | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory |
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: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): R1-cc-next ×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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