China: the Silk Road and the Tang, sentence 12
The monk Xuanzang walked to India in the 7th century and brought back Buddhist texts; centuries later the novel «Journey to the West» turned his trip into an adventure with the Monkey King.
Who acts: monk, novel, India · What happens: walk, bring back, turn, trip · To what, where: India, Buddhist texts, trip, adventure
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 (monk, novel, India), 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 monk | det |
| 2 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | Xuanzang | Xuanzang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 monk | appos |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 India | case |
| 6 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 century | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 century | det |
| 9 | 7th | 7th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 10 century | amod |
| 10 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 brought | cc |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 brought | advmod |
| 14 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 texts | amod |
| 15 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 brought | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 turned | punct |
| 17 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 later | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 turned | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 novel | det |
| 20 | novel | novel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 turned | nsubj |
| 21 | « | « | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Journey | compound |
| 22 | Journey | journey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 novel | appos |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 » | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 West | det |
| 25 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Journey | nmod |
| 26 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Journey | nmod |
| 27 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | parataxis |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 trip | nmod:poss |
| 29 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 turned | obj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 adventure | case |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 adventure | det |
| 32 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 turned | obl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 King | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 King | det |
| 35 | Monkey | monkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 King | compound |
| 36 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 adventure | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the monk | India | century | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to india=Result | |||
| 2 | bring back | past | the monk not said here | Buddhist texts | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent text=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | the novel | India's trip | a adventure with the Monkey King | late property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent trip=Theme into adventure=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | trip | India | nom trip «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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: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): R5-strong ×6, R8-pos-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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