The Mongols, sentence 4

Genghis's grandson Kublai Khan became emperor of China, and a Venetian merchant called Marco Polo wrote a book about his court that amazed Europe.

Who acts: grandson, Venetian merchant, court · What happens: become, call, write, amaze · To what, where: emperor, Venetian merchant, book, Europe · 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 (grandson, Venetian merchant, court), 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	Genghis	Genghis	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grandson	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Genghis	case
3	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	nsubj
4	Kublai	Kublai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grandson	appos
5	Khan	Khan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Kublai	flat
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 China	case
9	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 emperor	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wrote	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wrote	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 merchant	det
13	Venetian	venetian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 merchant	amod
14	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wrote	nsubj
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 merchant	acl
16	Marco	Marco	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
17	Polo	Polo	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Marco	flat
18	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 book	det
20	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wrote	obj
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 court	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 court	nmod:poss
23	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 book	nmod
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 amazed	nsubj
25	amazed	amaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 court	acl:relcl
26	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 amazed	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	Genghis's grandson	emperor of China		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	call	participle		a Venetian merchant not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	write	past	a Venetian merchant	a book	about merchant's court	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent book=Recipient about court=Topic
4	amaze	past	merchant's court	Europe		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus europe=Experiencer

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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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