The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world, sentence 4

Further south, West Africa had rich kingdoms too: Mansa Musa of Mali gave away so much gold on his journey to Mecca that the price of gold fell in Cairo.

Who acts: West Africa, Mansa Musa, price, Musa · What happens: have, give away, fall, journey · To what, where: rich kingdoms, much gold, journey, Cairo

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world» 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 (West Africa, Mansa Musa, price, Musa), 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	Further	further	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
2	south	south	ADV	_	1 Further	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Further	punct
4	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Africa	compound
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kingdoms	amod
8	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	too	too	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 Musa	punct
11	Mansa	Mansa	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Musa	compound
12	Musa	Musa	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 gave	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Mali	case
14	Mali	Mali	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Musa	nmod
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	parataxis
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 gave	advmod
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gold	amod
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 journey	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 journey	nmod:poss
22	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 Mecca	case
24	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 journey	nmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 fell	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 price	det
27	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fell	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 gold	case
29	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 price	nmod
30	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gave	advcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 Cairo	case
32	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 fell	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	West Africa	rich kingdoms		further property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient
2	give away	past	Mansa Musa of Mali	much gold	Musa's journey to Mecca	away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
3	fall	past	the price of gold		Cairo		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cairo=Location
4	journey		Musa			to Mecca	nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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:022-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world.lesson:4.

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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