China: the four great inventions, sentence 8
The Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist holy text printed in 868 AD and found in a cave at Dunhuang, is the oldest dated printed book; it is now in the British Library in London.
Who acts: Diamond · What happens: print, find, date, be · To what, where: Buddhist holy text, 868 AD, cave, oldest dated printed book, British Library
This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the four great inventions» 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 (Diamond), 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 Diamond | det |
| 2 | Diamond | Diamond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 book | nsubj |
| 3 | Sutra | Sutra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Diamond | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 text | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 text | det |
| 6 | Buddhist | Buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 text | amod |
| 7 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 text | amod |
| 8 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Sutra | appos |
| 9 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 text | acl | |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 AD | case |
| 11 | 868 | 868 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 AD | nummod |
| 12 | AD | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 printed | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 printed | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cave | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cave | det |
| 17 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Dunhuang | case |
| 19 | Dunhuang | Dunhuang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 cave | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Diamond | punct |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 book | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 book | det |
| 23 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 book | amod |
| 24 | dated | date | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 book | amod |
| 25 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 book | amod | |
| 26 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 Library | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 Library | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 Library | cop |
| 30 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 Library | advmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 Library | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Library | det |
| 33 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Library | amod |
| 34 | Library | Library | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 book | parataxis |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 London | case |
| 36 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Library | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 book | 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 | participle | a Buddhist holy text not said here | 868 AD | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ad=Destination | |||||
| 2 | find | participle | a cave at Dunhuang | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | date | participle | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||||
| 5 | is a | present | the Diamond | the oldest dated printed book | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | present | Diamond | the British Library | now | in London | 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:053-china-the-four-great-inventions.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): R5-strong ×2. 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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