China: the Silk Road and the Tang, sentence 19
Go (weiqi) and xiangqi (Chinese chess) are old Chinese games, Go over 2,500 years old; modern chess grew from the Indian game chaturanga.
Who acts: Go, modern chess · What happens: be, grow · To what, where: old Chinese games
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 (Go, modern chess), 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 | Go | Go | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 games | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 weiqi | punct |
| 3 | weiqi | weiqi | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Go | appos |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 weiqi | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 xiangqi | cc |
| 6 | xiangqi | xiangqi | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Go | conj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 chess | punct |
| 8 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chess | amod |
| 9 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 xiangqi | flat |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 chess | punct |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 games | cop |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 games | amod |
| 13 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 games | amod |
| 14 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Go | punct |
| 16 | Go | Go | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 games | appos |
| 17 | over | over | ADV | _ | 18 2,500 | advmod |
| 18 | 2,500 | 2500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 old | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Go | acl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 grew | punct |
| 22 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 chess | amod |
| 23 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grew | nsubj |
| 24 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 games | parataxis |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 chaturanga | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 chaturanga | det |
| 27 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 chaturanga | amod |
| 28 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 chaturanga | compound |
| 29 | chaturanga | chaturanga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grew | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 games | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Go | old Chinese games | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | modern chess | from the Indian game chaturanga | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from chaturanga=Patient |
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:19.
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): R6-punct-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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