China: the Silk Road and the Tang, sentence 13

The Tang dynasty, 618–907, was a golden age; its capital Chang'an was among the largest cities in the world, though Baghdad was also huge.

Who acts: Tang dynasty, capital, Baghdad · What happens: be · To what, where: golden age, world

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 (Tang dynasty, capital, Baghdad), 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	3 dynasty	det
2	Tang	Tang	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dynasty	compound
3	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 age	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 618	punct
5	618	618	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 dynasty	nmod
6	–	-	PUNCT	_	5 618	punct
7	907	907	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 618	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dynasty	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 age	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 age	det
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 age	amod
12	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 cities	punct
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 capital	nmod:poss
15	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cities	nsubj
16	Chang'an	Chang'an	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 capital	appos
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cities	cop
18	among	among	ADP	_	21 cities	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cities	det
20	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 cities	amod
21	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 age	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 world	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cities	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 huge	punct
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	30 huge	mark
27	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 huge	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 huge	cop
29	also	also	ADV	_	30 huge	advmod
30	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 age	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 age	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Tang dynasty 618	a golden age			tree rules
2	is	past	dynasty's capital		the world	among the largest cities	tree rules
3	is	past	Baghdad			huge property	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:054-china-the-silk-road-and-the-tang.lesson:13.

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, R8-pos-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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