China: the Silk Road and the Tang, sentence 15
A legend says Li Bai drowned reaching for the Moon's reflection, but he probably died of illness.
Who acts: legend, Li · What happens: say, drown, reach, die · 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 (legend, Li), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 legend | det |
| 2 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Li | Li | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 drowned | nsubj |
| 5 | Bai | Bai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Li | flat |
| 6 | drowned | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 drowned | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 reflection | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Moon | det |
| 10 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 reflection | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Moon | case |
| 12 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reaching | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 died | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 died | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 died | nsubj |
| 16 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 17 died | advmod |
| 17 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 illness | case |
| 19 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 died | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a legend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | drown | past | Li | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reach | gerund | Li not said here | for the Moon's reflection | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | die | past | Li | of illness; probably property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of illness=Causer |
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:15.
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 ×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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