China: the Silk Road and the Tang, sentence 0
Mei says China built the Silk Road and only silk went along it.
Who acts: Mei, China, silk · What happens: say, build, go along · To what, where: Silk Road, Road · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «China: the Silk Road and the Tang» 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 (Mei, China, silk), 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 | Mei | Mei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 built | nsubj |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Road | det |
| 6 | Silk | Silk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Road | compound |
| 7 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 silk | advmod |
| 10 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | conj |
| 12 | along | along | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | 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 | say speech: assert | present | Mei | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | build | past | China | the Silk Road | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Product | ||||
| 3 | go along | past | silk | Road | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:054-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang.lesson:0.
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): R7-rel-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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