China: the Silk Road and the Tang, sentence 11

Buddhism began in India and reached China around the 1st century AD; it became one of China's great traditions, and Chinese forms spread to Korea and Japan.

Who acts: Buddhism, silk, Chinese forms · What happens: begin, reach, become, spread · To what, where: India, China, 1st century AD, Korea

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 (Buddhism, silk, Chinese forms), 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	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 India	case
4	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 began	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 reached	cc
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
7	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
8	around	around	ADP	_	12 AD	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 AD	det
10	1st	1st	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	12 AD	amod
11	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 AD	compound
12	AD	ad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 became	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 became	nsubj
15	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 became	xcomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 traditions	case
18	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 traditions	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 China	case
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 traditions	amod
21	traditions	tradition	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 spread	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 spread	cc
24	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 forms	amod
25	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 spread	nsubj
26	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 became	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 Korea	case
28	Korea	Korea	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 spread	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Japan	cc
30	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Korea	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	begin	past	Buddhism			India	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	reach	past	Buddhism not said here	China		the 1st century AD	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent china=Theme
3	become	past	silk				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	spread	past	Chinese forms		Korea and Japan		vn appear-48.1.1 «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:11.

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 ×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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