The Mongols, sentence 12

The Mongols had relay stations with fresh horses so that messengers could ride hundreds of kilometres a day, showing a metal pass called a paiza.

Who acts: Mongols, messengers, metal pass · What happens: have, ride, show, call · To what, where: relay stations, hundreds, metal pass, paiza · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Mongols» 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 (Mongols, messengers, metal pass), 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	2 Mongols	det
2	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	relay	relay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stations	compound
5	stations	station	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 horses	case
7	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horses	amod
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stations	nmod
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 ride	mark
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 messengers	det
11	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ride	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 ride	aux
13	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	advcl
14	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ride	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 kilometres	case
16	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hundreds	nmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ride	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 showing	punct
20	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 ride	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pass	det
22	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pass	compound
23	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 showing	obj
24	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 pass	acl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 paiza	det
26	paiza	paiza	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 called	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Mongols	relay stations		with fresh horses	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent station=Patient
2	ride	could	that messengers	hundreds of kilometres	day		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme
3	show	gerund	that messengers not said here	a metal pass			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pass=Recipient
4	call	participle	a metal pass not said here	a paiza			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent paiza=Recipient

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:023-the-mongols.lesson:12.

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): R8-pos-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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